AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
FROM AROUND THE WORLD: MILWAUKEE.(Review)
What is there about the characters in the Almaviva household that makes us want to know more about them? Beaumarchais's play La Mere Coupable (set by Darius Milhaud in 1967) and, more recently, John Corigliano's opera, The Ghosts of Versailles, undertook to extend their story. Now Skylight Opera has presented a new production of Rosina, a chamber opera by librettist Barbara Field and composer Hiram Titus, which does the same. Neither comedy nor fantasy, Rosina's slight story, like that of La Mere Coupable, makes Rosina the mother of Cherubino's child. Cherubino has become an artist, and it is through his paintings of Rosina -- posed as a Madonna -- that her husband, Count Almaviva, tracks the lovers to Madrid. Traveling with his mistress du jour, he comes to ask Rosina to return to him, coldly adding that she can bring her "souvenir" with her. The strongly formalistic libretto -- a series of arias, duets and ensembles -- quite dominates Titus's score, harmonies and scoring of which often sound as though he studied with Richard Strauss.
The cast was mixed. Soprano Emily Martin made Rosina a sympathetic character and successfully traversed the role's wide vocal range. But her small ...
- (Per)versions of masculinity in Maupassant's La Mere aux monstres.(Guy de...
- French Forum Hadlock, Philip G. January 1, 2002 700+ words
...time, imbued masculinity with monsterism. Creating Monsters La mere aux monstres, one of Maupassant's best-known tales of monsterism...notable phenomena; he decides to introduce the narrator to la mere aux monstres. The narrative thus engages on a curious quest...
- Harry Potter: Harrycane: a sign of the times.(Father Lazare de la Mere de Dieu,...
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight December 1, 2001 700+ words
Father Lazare de la Mere de Dieu, F.J., once told a friend, As a priest, I would consider it personally irresponsible were I not willing to take...
- Young composers find Mozart a hard act to follow; OPERA.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) February 10, 2004 700+ words
...Bridewell Theatre, EC4 HAVE you ever wondered what happened to Count Almaviva, the Countess, Cherubino and the rest after the curtain...because Beaumarchais wrote a third play in the series, La MEre Coupable (The Guilty Mother), which was used as the starting...
- Phantoms of the mind: T.S. Eliot's "To Walter de la Mere."
- Magazine article from: Papers on Language & Literature Chandran, K. Narayana March 22, 1997 700+ words
At a time when "degrees of reality" engaged his studies, T. S. Eliot maintained that "The I who saw the ghost is not the I who had the attack of indigestion" (Knowledge and Experience 121). While this partly explains Eliot's familiar compounding of ghosts, it also suggests how an illusion prompts
- Metropolitan Opera: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
- Magazine article from: Opera News Hamilton, David; Driscoll, F Paul January 20, 1996 700+ words
...CAST (in order of vocal appearance) Count Almaviva--tenor, Raul Gimenez Fiorello...O. Box 805, N.C. 10150 ACT I. Count Almaviva, with his servant Fiorello and some...that a rival for Rosina's hand, Count Almaviva, is in Seville. Bartolo decides to...
- Millikin's 'Figaro' a combination of tears and laughter.
- Newspaper article from: Herald & Review (Decatur, IL) February 1, 2007 700+ words
...place in the 18th century in Seville. Count Almaviva is determined to seduce Susanna, the...thought he was." Her husband, the Count Almaviva, played by D.J. Robinson, is described...Upah (Figaro); D.J. Robinson (Count Almaviva); Christina Simonin and Emily Sites...
- A PEEK INSIDE THE ORIGINAL BARBERSHOP - IN SEVILLE.(U)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) February 6, 2003 700+ words
...Opera debut in the production as Count Almaviva, has worked with Hampe on three previous...servant Figaro and his sometime master Count Almaviva, were frequently set as operas. The...opera dealt with an uglier side of Count Almaviva, it has a less cynical tone than Rossini...
- 'BARBER' A FROTHY OPERA ROMP.(Timeout)
- Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) Hutton, Mary Ellyn June 23, 2005 700+ words
...with Lindoro, the man Rosina wants to marry (actually Count Almaviva in disguise). Generally acknowledged as the greatest of...Swenson. It will be Swenson's Cincinnati Opera debut. Count Almaviva is tenor Jorge Lopez-Yanez, with bass-baritone Dalibor...
