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Czech opera singer and actor
- bass
- Canada, Czechoslovakia
- television actor, film actor, actor, television presenter, opera singer, radio personality, stage actor, film director, film producer
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2017-02-17 09:01:11
An oboist on heroin
[…] were expecting a bit more.” “Well, it attracts mostly Europeans who can’t afford the Plaza.” I knew the Excelsior Hotel, on West 81st Street, myself, because I’d stayed there a few times when Mephisto and I were at particularly nasty odds and I needed an overnight safe house. They were silent, not knowing if my comment was a putdown or a disguised compliment on their international élan. Their accents revealed their homeland: New Jersey. Rubes from the countryside. “You seem loopy. Did you take something? Or is it just the booze?” My head jerked back in reflex. This was also unusual—to call out someone’s drugged look. They were novices. But about an hour into my half Quaalude, I went along with it. “I took half a Quaalude. Just relaxing.” “Oh. Well, we have something to help with that. Want some?” “Sure.” They slipped a glassine packet to me under […]
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CNY Café Momus
2012-10-17 02:45:29
Oct. 13 Metropolitan simulcast: L'Elisir d'Amore
The Met’s L’Elisir d’Amore mixes a potion better suited to singing than staging Director Bartlett Sher’s bleak staging burdens Donizetti’s comic book-like pastorale with needless weight, but this new production will ultimately be remembered for its magnificent singing By David Rubin ici Gaetano Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love is a delicious comedy of unending melody and fun. The young composer dashed it off in 1832 in a mere six weeks, and it quickly became a staple of the repertoire. Between 1838 and 1848, according to the New Grove Dictionary of Opera, it was the most performed opera in Italy. For years the Met offered Elixir in a bright, cartoonish production that caught the silly mood of the piece. The love-struck peasant Nemorino pines for the wealthy and cultured landowner Adina, who […]
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