She lives and works in A Coruña (province of Galicia), and she spent some years in Florence around the mid-nineties, IIRC :) Alas, well after the flood *blushes in shame at ignorance and goes a-googling* why, was it so devastating?
Oh my, who is Prince Bolkonsky? Drop everything you´re reading and start "War And Peace". If Prince Andrei Bolkonsky doesn´t break your heart by page six (and then again, repeatedly, in about almost every scene he´s in), then I´ll eat my fangs. If you like brooding, insightful noble, intriguing, doomed, nearly otherwordly characters he´ll be irresistible (just remember I saw him first :p)
Haven´t seen Onegin, if it the movie which you´re referring to... just seeing the opera in St Pete and then walking down the same strees and bridges was such a shattering emo experience; although, if the movie was filmed *there*, I´ll just have to see it.
Yes, Grandmother knew him and his family from meeting socially so often (when he wasn´t abroad fleeing from cuckolded husbands, that is :p), and she said Fiennes´ way of playing him was about the only bearable thing about that movie.
He actually was so much like Goeth? *is getting seriously freaked out now*
I LOVE Rebecca the movie and the book! Can´t say the same about the musical, though... maybe it´s the crappy non-music (the kind of elevator music without even a catchy tune to it), although the visuals are stunning. It´s an original Vienna production which opened just two months ago in the Raimundtheater, Uwe Kroger plays Max and Susan Rivava-Dumas is fantastic as Mrs Danvers.
"Rebecca" is a musical??? How bizarre!! But then... do you like "Turn of the Screw," the Henry James novella? There's a Britten opera of it, and I like it quite a lot. (It's not one of his best operas, but I still like it. It does manage to capture some of the terrifying ambiguity of the story. Britten is good at ambiguity.) So if they can make an opera of "Turn of the Screw," I suppose they can make a musical of "Rebecca." And I adore the Daphne du Maurier book too!
Hee, and most of the music I love best has no tune to it, so maybe I'd like this musical of which you speak. I can't remember, have you heard "Billy Budd"? Hmm, probably not, because I think only weeboopiper and esteven have.
Wow, so did your Grandmother like Almasy? Was he handsome and suave and brooding and remarkably intelligent?
I ADORE The Turn Of The Screw, both the James novella and the opera by Britten!! It was filmed by the BBC, I think, can´t remember the singers but it was a very naturalistic approach, and the governess´ dress, which as snow-white at the beginning, developed a kind of growing, creeping black ivy lace border that gradually took over her whole dress and at the end it was black, and she looked indeed like death. Very lovely and scary fairytale!
Of course I know Billy Budd. My stepdad sang Vere once, many years ago. Every time they play it in Vienna I try to go see it, it´s *such* a good production.
According to Gran, he was short, awkward, unpredictable and very sarcastic, but he seemed to have that je ne sais quoi which drew women to him (or rather, made other men believe he was a chick magnet and thus made them jealous!) And he seems to have been intelligent enough to hide his smarts in society...
*adores icons twice as much for that reason alone*
Did you like Melville´s story, and do you like "Peter Grimes" as well?
My, comparing Dah Aviator with Maturin... *g* basket case, he he (although funnily enough I can imagine Fiennes-Almásy playing Maturin - most probably truer to book canon than Bettany did).
I did like Melville's story, and I love Peter Grimes too. And do you know Gloriana, Britten's opera about Queen Elizabeth? It's so perfect for him to have written a Renaissance opera! So suitable.
Well I do adore some of the same things in both men - movie Almasy and Maturin. I love that they're so knowledgeable, and both speak so many languages, and both blend so effortlessly with native cultures and local peoples, and both are passionate about knowledge and learning... Sigh.
Have you seen Fiennes in 'Quiz Show'? I love him in that movie too - again, because he's so knowledgeable and intelligent! He plays Shakespeare quote guessing games with his father!!! &hearts
Oh my, who is Prince Bolkonsky? Drop everything you´re reading and start "War And Peace". If Prince Andrei Bolkonsky doesn´t break your heart by page six (and then again, repeatedly, in about almost every scene he´s in), then I´ll eat my fangs. If you like brooding, insightful noble, intriguing, doomed, nearly otherwordly characters he´ll be irresistible (just remember I saw him first :p)
Haven´t seen Onegin, if it the movie which you´re referring to... just seeing the opera in St Pete and then walking down the same strees and bridges was such a shattering emo experience; although, if the movie was filmed *there*, I´ll just have to see it.
Yes, Grandmother knew him and his family from meeting socially so often (when he wasn´t abroad fleeing from cuckolded husbands, that is :p), and she said Fiennes´ way of playing him was about the only bearable thing about that movie.
He actually was so much like Goeth? *is getting seriously freaked out now*
I LOVE Rebecca the movie and the book! Can´t say the same about the musical, though... maybe it´s the crappy non-music (the kind of elevator music without even a catchy tune to it), although the visuals are stunning. It´s an original Vienna production which opened just two months ago in the Raimundtheater, Uwe Kroger plays Max and Susan Rivava-Dumas is fantastic as Mrs Danvers.
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Hee, and most of the music I love best has no tune to it, so maybe I'd like this musical of which you speak. I can't remember, have you heard "Billy Budd"? Hmm, probably not, because I think only weeboopiper and esteven have.
Wow, so did your Grandmother like Almasy? Was he handsome and suave and brooding and remarkably intelligent?
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Of course I know Billy Budd. My stepdad sang Vere once, many years ago. Every time they play it in Vienna I try to go see it, it´s *such* a good production.
According to Gran, he was short, awkward, unpredictable and very sarcastic, but he seemed to have that je ne sais quoi which drew women to him (or rather, made other men believe he was a chick magnet and thus made them jealous!) And he seems to have been intelligent enough to hide his smarts in society...
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Wow, Almasy sounds like quite a character. Haha, that description (minus the chick magnet) sounds like Stephen!
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Did you like Melville´s story, and do you like "Peter Grimes" as well?
My, comparing Dah Aviator with Maturin... *g* basket case, he he (although funnily enough I can imagine Fiennes-Almásy playing Maturin - most probably truer to book canon than Bettany did).
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Well I do adore some of the same things in both men - movie Almasy and Maturin. I love that they're so knowledgeable, and both speak so many languages, and both blend so effortlessly with native cultures and local peoples, and both are passionate about knowledge and learning... Sigh.
Have you seen Fiennes in 'Quiz Show'? I love him in that movie too - again, because he's so knowledgeable and intelligent! He plays Shakespeare quote guessing games with his father!!! &hearts
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