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...first the opera does appear to be something of a rewrite. The story certainly recalls La Traviata: Parisian Courtesan Magda meets innocent Country Boy Ruggero, loves him and then, out of concern for his family's honor, leaves him. And as in La Bohème, there is a joyous café scene and a secondary pair of quarrelsome lovers. Yet the feel of La Rondine is very different, for Magda is a more worldly-wise heroine than either Violetta or Mimi. Her affair with Ruggero is a self-deluding attempt to recapture a lost moment from her youth...
...When we faced adversity last year we always came out on top," Ruggero added. "This year, we faced adversity, but sometimes we didn't win. So now we have the taste of victory but we also know that we can't take anything for granted...
...true dance movement. The Quartet navigated the fugue impeccably. By employing a multilayered system of dynamics, the main voice always remained prominent while the others maintained the tension. But before the audience could be thrown into the hysterics usually invoked by middle Beethoven, the Hwang and second violinist Ruggero Allafranchini ushered in a flowing lyrical line that could only be Schumann...
Catherine E. DeLima is a sweet-voiced anddemure Magda, gradually giving herself over firstto nostalgia, then longing and finally abandon.Her young lover Ruggero (Joel L. Derfner) iswinningly earnest in both voice and appearance.Saccente puts in another solid performance asMagda's "gentleman friend" Rambaldo. Themephistophelian poet Prunier (Michael J. Olbash)is affably effete, but perhaps a bit stiff as theadvocate of love's "dread disease...
MOST AMEFICANS are not usually concerned with research in theoretical physics, but according to Ruggero Santilli's new book they ought to be. In II Guande Grida, Santilli levels charges against some of the most respected members of the U.S. physics community and claims that; "under the deceptive vest of democratic peer review, the current U.S. academic community in physics is a most totalitarian (and internationally powerful) scientific organization which imposes a most questionable form of slavery, that of the human mind." Moreover, Santilli argues that the systematic obstruction of certain kinds of research in theoretical and experimental physics...