Word: desdemonas
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...Georg Solti (who will conduct Le Nozze di Figaro and Otello) or La Scala's dashing Claudio Abbado (Macbeth, La Cenerentola, Simon Boccanegra). Or being present when an important artist breaks through into international stardom-as, say, Paris' dulcet-voiced soprano Margaret Price (the Countess in Figaro, Desdemona in Otello) may well do this time. Before La Scala and Paris wind up their two-week stands (Paris will then follow La Scala into the Kennedy Center), it should be quite a show-both in front of the footlights and backstage...
...graying professor of English literature, suffers from a similar blindness when it comes to looking into his own situation. Cuckolded left and right, he is capable only of sniffing at his wife's "roused animal juices" and muttering lines from Othello. The heroine of this book is no Desdemona, but she has the professor thoroughly confused; as the annoyingly well-informed narrator tells us several timer, he is so wrapped up in his books that he can't tell the real thing when it pokes him in the face. It is a cheap and half-hearted shot at academia...
...where for the past three years her star has been steadily rising. Last week Kiri began to shine in New York too. In the grandest of operatic traditions, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut on a mere three hours' notice. Substituting for an ill Teresa Stratas, she sang Desdemona in Verdi's Otello, with Tenor Jon Vickers. Said the New York Times: "Her voice had a lovely fresh sound. She won the audience from the very beginning." Kiri herself credited Vickers. "He made me feel," she explained, "like a wee baby being taken care...
Selective evidence is the device Fiedler uses to make his case, and some of it is weirdly selective. He brushes aside Cleopatra, Juliet, Desdemona and Cordelia, since they do not bolster the antiwoman argument, and dwells on the unflattering portrayal of Joan of Arc in Henry VI, Part I to establish Shakespeare's bias. It is more direct and more correct to recall that France was the hereditary enemy of England, and that precious few Frenchmen are depicted with anything but derision and distaste in Shakespeare. Apply the argument in reverse. Tennessee Williams has given us remarkable...
Darcy Pulliam (as Emilia) has an especially well-reigned sense of the power of servants in Shakespearean plays. With much of Iago's ability for skillful management of others (but with none of his strange twist of heart) she soothes Desdemona and chaperones her to bed with the kind of understated stage-presence that suggests a well-concealed understanding of how her mistress is to be handled. And Marie Kohler's Desdemona is more dutifully opposed than passively resigned to Othello's creeping suspicion--a refreshing variation on the usually-wilting Desdemona...