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ustinov: everybody’s talkin’
…Peter Ustinov’s first three plays were produced while he was in military service during World War Two. House of Regents, a story of Russian exiles, reached the stage largely because James Agate, the waspish but influential critic of the Sunday … Continue reading
LIKE MOURNING COACHES WHEN THE FUNERAL IS DONE
Extravagant showmanship, a proclivity toward the taking of calculated risks, and unabashed greed- all salient features of the Venetian way of life- are epitomized in Francesco Guardi’s “Il Ridotto” , which also sums up the decadence of eighteenth-century Venice and … Continue reading
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Tagged Byron, Canaletto, Carlo Goldoni, Francesco Ghisellini, Francesco Guardi, Giacomo Casanova, Giammaria Ortes, Jean Cocteau, John Ruskin, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Luchino Visconti, Percy Shelley, Philippe Monnier, Pietro Longhi, Rick Steves, Thmoas Mann, Warren Adelson
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LORENZO Da PONTE: The Wandering Libretto
Lorenzo Da Ponte? Venice, 1763. In a church crowded with worshippers and onlookers, a baptism is about to take place. A bishop presides at the ceremony. Giacomo Casanova, sitting in the crowd, observes the baptism of four Jews with a … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Holden, Carlos Saura, Charles McGrath, Gerald Mendelsohn, Giacomo Casanova, Jason Anderson, Joan Acocella, Jonathon Keats, Joseph Losey, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Megan Marshall, Michael Haneke, Milos Forman, Paj Sandhu, Peter Shaffer, Rodney Bolt, Samuel Morse, Sheila Hodges, Susan W. Bowen, Vittorio Storaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Yves Klein
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SOMETIMES ITS BETTER TO FORGET
Not every man is a legend in his own time but Giacomo Casanova (1724-1798) achieved legendary status well before his death, living long enough to be a “consultant’ on the first production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. Soldier, scholar, lawyer, physician, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Hunt, Arthur Machen, Arthur Symons, Boilly, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Casanova, Casanova Syndrome, Cathleen Hardy, Diomnysis, Giacomo Casanova, James Gillray, John Walsh, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Judith Summers, Lizzy Davies Guardian, Lorenzo Da Ponte, mandy katz, Michel Foucault, Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Ron Hogan, Stephen Amidon, Susan Swan, Titian, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Zanetta Casanova
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MORE THAN DANDY, RANDY and EYE CANDY
”Generous to a fault, Casanova plied his lovers with money and expensive gifts, whether or not he could afford it. And his generosity did not stop at the bedroom door. He understood the intricacies of the female orgasm, believed that … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Machen, Arthur Symons, Ben Crawford, Ben Crawford The New York Times, Casanova, Casanova Syndrome, Count Waldstein, Denis Diderot, Fragonard, Franz Liszt, Gerald Mendelsohn, Giacomo Casanova, Havelock Ellis, Haverlock Ellis, Heath Ledger, Hector Berlioz, Ian Kelly, Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, Jean Laforgue, John Mallard William Turner, Judith Summers, Kitty Fisher, Lady Harrington, Laura Clifford, Lennard J. Davis, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Marianne Faithfull, Niccolo Paganini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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GUILTLESS PLEASURE: IMMORTALIZED FOR THE NAUGHTY BITS
Casanova: “I had women, I played, I joined in the fun, I bawled, I scorned and was never slave to my passions, but they gave me pleasure. Of not hiding myself, I made my profession…”The same principle which forbids me … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Volkoff, Anton Raphael Mengs, Brian Kenety, Casanova, Casanova David Tennant, Casanova Syndrome, Count Waldstein, Donald Sutherland, Dr. Maty British Museum, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Frank Finlay, Frederick the Great, Frederico Fellini, Giacomo Casanova, Graciela Spector-Bitan, Homer The Iliad, Ian Kelly, Ivan Mosjoukine, Jacob Frank, John Walsh, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, Linguistic Casanova, Lizzy Davies, Lizzy Davies Guardian, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Samuel Johnson, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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BEING DOES NOT = E + MC 2
Though the goal of spontaneous human combustion can also be attained by splitting atoms and achieving fission in the more social sciences. The vocabulary of art is, a priori, a language. That is, its aim is to communicate to others … Continue reading
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THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE PHOENIX
The twenty somethings. The Generation Y of his time. The Harry Potter infected mania of the Hapsburgs and the first faint scent of a nostalgic return. Wolfgang Amadeus “Quidditch of Music” Mozart. His patience finally snapped when he was made … Continue reading
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Tagged Beaumarchais, Beaumarche, Carlos Saura, Constance Weber, Figaro, Franz Nemecek, Harry Potter, Lorenzo Da Ponte, Mozart, Otto Rank, Quidditch, Robert Louis Stevenson, The marriage of Figaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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