Word: traviatas
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...Charmed but piqued by the limited offering of activities and cultural events in the greater Boston area, this student, while on his way to Lamont to renew The History of Art for the fifth time that day, lapses into reveries of world-premier movies, a new production of La Traviata, and cocktail parties at which members of both the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books will be present. And, oh, he thinks as he asks "When does this book circulate for the vacation?" there is to be a showing of rarely-seen Durer prints at a nearby...
...high camp, movie mythology, bad taste, obsessive romanticism and impudent satire. It is also oddly -very oddly-moving; not innovative, perhaps, but quite unique. The second film of a young Swiss named Daniel Schmid, it is a reshaping of the story of Camille, with some strains from La Traviata thrown in for good measure. Imagine a hothouse hybrid of the work of Ken Russell and Roger Gorman, and the overstuffed, overcharged texture of the film can just be approximated. La Paloma is set in Europe of the 1930s as it might have been dreamed by Aubrey Beardsley. What makes...
...libretto was a piece of hack work from a Parisian scenario factory run by an enterprising auteur of sorts named Eugene Scribe. Having just successfully completed Rigoletto and La Traviata with Italian Librettist Francesco Maria Piave, Verdi despised the messy French text with the passion he brought to everything...
Callas sat at her director's desk, marking the score and consulting with her two co-directors, Giuseppe di Stefano and Fabrizio Melano. During the breaks, Callas and Di Stefano, friends for 20 years, laughed together about the old days-even the 1955 La Traviata performance in Mexico City when Tenor Di Stefano stalked off the stage, leaving Callas stranded in the second act in retaliation for her hogging the duets and curtain calls of the previous evening. "What wonderful things we did then, Pippo," she smiled. They worked with each other as affectionately as they did with...
...clowns from I Pagliacci on specially constructed mini-stages? Who else but Adler could persuade Prima Donna Joan Sutherland to brave both the crowd and the city's infamous outdoor air-conditioning and sing Ah fors' è lui and Sempre libera from Verdi's La Traviata? Introduced by his Honor Joseph Alioto, the statuesque ("La Stupenda"), redheaded Joan beamed upon her vast audience and remarked with her familiar air of Aussie nononsense: "The mayor's already told you what I'm going to sing, so I might as well get on with...