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Exotic and irrational entertainment: Films of Jean Arthur, part 2
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Exotic and irrational entertainment. Books, opera, Bollywood, and other indefensible obsessions. Wednesday, February 26, 2014. Films of Jean Arthur, part 2. A continuation of Films of Jean Arthur, part 1. This part discusses If You Could Only Cook. The Devil and Miss Jones. The Talk of the Town. And The More The Merrier. If You Could Only Cook. 1935, directed by William Seiter and written by Howard Green and Gertrude Purcell). The Talk of the Town. And The More the Merrier. And it may have begun here.
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Exotic and irrational entertainment: Boston Early Music Festival: Monteverdi's Ulisse
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Exotic and irrational entertainment. Books, opera, Bollywood, and other indefensible obsessions. Sunday, June 21, 2015. Boston Early Music Festival: Monteverdi's Ulisse. Caitlin Klinger and Melissa House (Naiadi) and Matthew Brook (Nettuno). Photo: Kathy Wittman. Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria. Friday, June 12, Boston University Theater. Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs, musical directors; Gilbert Blin, stage director and set designer. But Penelope is unaware that Ulisse, under the protection of the goddes...
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Exotic and irrational entertainment: Opera guide 2: Le Nozze di Figaro
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Exotic and irrational entertainment. Books, opera, Bollywood, and other indefensible obsessions. Tuesday, May 20, 2008. Opera guide 2: Le Nozze di Figaro. Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro. The Marriage of Figaro, 1786) is an opera I never grow tired of hearing. The opera is incredibly rich: musically, of course, because it's Mozart, and dramatically, thanks to librettist Lorenzo da Ponte and his source, Beaumarchais' play La folle journée, ou Le mariage de Figaro. Le Nozze di Figaro. Achieves its greatest pow...
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Exotic and irrational entertainment: Boston Early Music Festival: Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610
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Exotic and irrational entertainment. Books, opera, Bollywood, and other indefensible obsessions. Thursday, June 18, 2015. Boston Early Music Festival: Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610. The Boston Early Music Festival. Vespers of the Blessed Virgin, 1610) and his three surviving operas: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria. The return of Ulysses, 1640), L'Orfeo. Orpheus, 1607), and L'incoronazione di Poppea. The Coronation of Poppea, 1642). Stephen Stubbs, from bemf.org. Surely Stubb's assertion is overstating the c...
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Exotic and irrational entertainment: Opera Guide 5: L'incoronazione di Poppea
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Exotic and irrational entertainment. Books, opera, Bollywood, and other indefensible obsessions. Friday, August 14, 2009. Opera Guide 5: L'incoronazione di Poppea. Claudio Monteverdi didn't invent opera, but with librettist Alessandro Striggio he did create its first masterpiece, L'Orfeo. Orpheus, 1607), and with librettist Ottavio Rinuccini its first hit song, Arianna's lament from L'Arianna. The Return of Ulysses to his Homeland, 1640) and his final work, L'incoronazione di Poppea. Of course, Poppea.
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Exotic and irrational entertainment: Favorites of 2013: Movies
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Exotic and irrational entertainment. Books, opera, Bollywood, and other indefensible obsessions. Wednesday, December 18, 2013. Favorites of 2013: Movies. Some years trying to think of movies to include on my favorites list is a bit of a struggle. Not this year; in fact, I'm leaving some excellent films off the list just to keep it a manageable length. Here are my favorite (non-Indian) movies first watched in 2013:. Myrna Loy, Asta, and William Powell in After the Thin Man. After seeing Libeled Lady.
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Exotic and irrational entertainment: May 2015
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Exotic and irrational entertainment. Books, opera, Bollywood, and other indefensible obsessions. Monday, May 25, 2015. Repeating a mistake": Tanu Weds Manu Returns. In my post on the first entry in this series, "Who cares if Tanu Weds Manu? I wrote that "Himanshu Sharma's script doesn't.give us any long-term hope for this couple. I found myself thinking 'This is such a bad idea' throughout the final Tanu-Manu wedding scene—not exactly the note on which you want to end a romantic comedy.". But in the firs...
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Exotic and irrational entertainment: Boston Early Music Festival: Monteverdi's L'Orfeo
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Exotic and irrational entertainment. Books, opera, Bollywood, and other indefensible obsessions. Friday, June 19, 2015. Boston Early Music Festival: Monteverdi's L'Orfeo. Mireille Asselin (Euridice), Aaron Sheehan (Orfeo), and Nathan Medley (1st Shepherd),. With members of the BEMF Chamber Ensemble and the Dark Horse Consort. Photo: Kathy Wittman. 8212;Francesco Gonzaga to his brother Ferdinando Gonzaga, 1 March 1607 [1]. Several letters describing aspects of the first performance of Monteverdi's L'Orfeo.
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Exotic and irrational entertainment: The Marriage of Figaro
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Exotic and irrational entertainment. Books, opera, Bollywood, and other indefensible obsessions. Saturday, July 18, 2015. The Marriage of Figaro. Nadine Sierra as the Countess; photos courtesy SF Opera. The San Francisco Opera's recent production of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro. The Marriage of Figaro, 1786), seen at the closing Sunday afternoon performance on July 5, was brimming with problems that would have wrecked a lesser opera:. Was rescued by its brilliant young cast. Philippe Sly, who had prev...
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Exotic and irrational entertainment: April 2015
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Exotic and irrational entertainment. Books, opera, Bollywood, and other indefensible obsessions. Sunday, April 19, 2015. In memory of Eduardo Galeano. In my post about 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. I wrote that Eduardo Galeano's Memoria del Fuego. Trilogy (1982-86; translated as Memory of Fire. 1989; translated as The Book of Embraces. I brought to that reading is one of the most treasured books in my library. The Function of Art/1. The ocean lay beyond high sand dunes, waiting. And so immense...