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What's next: Writing, directing and starring in The Countess, a period drama about "power and vanity...
...character sings. Deceit and pranks that rival those of Shakespeare’s Puck abound in this opera, as the main characters—Kapusta’s Figaro; his lover Susanna, played by Winnie L. Nip ’08; the Count and the Countess Almaviva, portrayed by James B. Onstad ’09 and Katrin D. “Kathy” Gerlach ’07; and Marcellina and Bartolo, played by Anne E. “Annie” Levine ’08 and Jonathan M. Roberts ’09?...
...wanted to give the production some historical depth without making it a period piece, so I set the opera in the late 1950s/early 1960s. It made sense to present the Count and Countess as operatic versions of John F. Kennedy and Jackie Onassis, considering the Count’s frequent infidelities but overwhelming charm, and the Countess’s penchant for forgiveness...
...construction of his clothes that Diana Vreeland once declared, "In a Balenciaga you were the only woman in the room." Born in a small Basque village in Spain in 1895, Balenciaga worked in his mother's seamstress shop and found his first client at 13 when a local countess permitted him to copy one of her couture dresses. She later paid his way to Madrid for formal training. By 1919 Balenciaga had his own couture salons in San Sebastian, Barcelona and Madrid, but the Spanish Civil War forced him to decamp to Paris. It was there that he showed some...
...family by his intelligence and appearance, Leo attracts the attention of his teacher, a member of the Hungarian bourgeoisie, performing a turn of the century Teach for America stint. The teacher convinces Leo’s family to send him to Budapest for schooling. There he meets the Countess Julia, a friend of his foster mother who initiates him to the ways of sex at the tender...