Word: timelessness
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Verdi's 1853 musical adaptation of a play by Alexandre Dumas is the first of many works based on the timeless story of the two star-crossed lovers, the most well-known of which is the film version "Camille" with Greta Garbo. The story's adaptability to the opera stage, the ballet stage, and even the silver screen is remarkable, and perhaps is owed to the simplicity of the heroine's tragic plight. Called Violetta in Verdi's opera, she is a consumptive courtesan in the decadent world of mid-19th century Paris, older and more worldly than her counterpart...
That is certainly true. Five of the nine players in Coach Kathy Delaney Smith's rotation are freshmen or sophomores. But the timeless resort to the inexperience excuse is not the whole story...
Swan Lakewas Tchaikovsky's first foray into the ballet world, and has become a ballet classic with its universal themes of good and evil, truth and deception, love, and coming of age. The Boston Ballet pumped an entirely new energy into this timeless classic in 1990, orchestrating the first ever Soviet/American collaboration on all facets of a full ballet production...
...until the last character encounters A -- comes from Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde. In that piece, set in fin-de-siecle Vienna, sex crosses social lines, allowing commentary, and serves as a metaphor for syphilis, permitting preachment. LaChiusa resists the obvious AIDS allusion. His love connections are timeless, and hopeless. Yet consistently thwarting his characters does not impede the ribald, puckish entertainment...
Sports events come in dribs and drabs. Reporters compete to cover a game. A midweek game story becomes exceptional, a hockey weekend phenomenal. Stories take on a timeless quality: updates, previews and reviews...