Word: tuscans
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...professional choreographer regarded as one of the most famous professionals of Baroque dance. Three professional dancers studying in his studio will make an appearance in Camilla. What is more, the opera will be performed in the courtyard space of the Fogg Museum. Modelled on the interior of a Tuscan church in Montepulciano, the intimate interior space will be lit by soft candlelit and complement the aesthetic experience of an opera designed to be performed in a royal apartment before aristocracy...
Traveling from Tuscan villages to the valleys of New Zealand, Andrew searches for bargains and little-known gems. Vintners often treat him like royalty. He tastes 5,000 wines a year and purchases offerings that range from Chateau Mouton Rothschild 1998 ($165) to $10 Merlots from Chile...
...points to Marchesi de Frescobaldi--best known for its Tuscan red wines, such as Nipozzano Chianti Rufina--which has acquired property in Friuli to make Sauvignon, Pinot Grigio and Ribolla Gialla white wines. "The Italians have figured it out--how to create tastes that suit the American palate," says John Fredrickson of Gomberg, Fredrickson & Associates, a wine-industry consultancy in San Francisco. In the U.S. market, Italian Pinot Grigios represent the largest import category. At the higher end of the market, the new category of Super Tuscans--such as Tignanello and Sassicaia--are commanding prices of $80 a bottle...
...answer turns out to be both. In Italy, where the movie opened in a record 860 theaters last Friday, audiences got their first glimpse of a film that unites, from a century apart, two prankster icons of Tuscan culture. The country's pride in Benigni's success is immense, but so is its stake in the purity of the Pinocchio story. And Benigni's Pinocchio - directed by and starring the maestro, with the same production team as Life is Beautiful and a budget of [EURO] 40 million, a record for an Italian film - makes good on his pledge to stay...
...answer turns out to be both. In Italy, where the movie opened in a record 860 theaters last Friday, audiences got their first glimpse of a film that unites, from a century apart, two prankster icons of Tuscan culture. The country's pride in Benigni's success is immense, but so is its stake in the purity of the Pinocchio story. And Benigni's Pinocchio - directed by and starring the maestro, with the same production team as Life is Beautiful and a budget of [EURO] 40 million, a record for an Italian film - makes good on his pledge to stay...