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TOSCA
by Giacomo Puccini
Thursday August 16th 2018, Ancient Theatre @ 9.00pm
Tuesday August 21st 2018, Ancient Theatre @ 9.00pm
Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou’s 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples’s control of Rome threatened by Napoleon’s invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, as well as some of Puccini’s best-known lyrical arias, and has inspired memorable performances from many of opera’s leading singers. The dramatic force of Tosca and its characters continues to fascinate both performers and audiences, and the work remains one of the most frequently performed operas.
The performance is a production of Taormina Opera Stars
Director: Bruno Torris
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| The Collected Works of Rose Zentner Vetter Major Contributor, Writer, Translator, Editor, & Mentor Keeping the Danube Swabian legacy alive! |
Literary Translations
Prince Eugene and our Old Homeland by Friedrich Lotz, 2013
Bardarski Geran by Rose Vetter, 19 June 2013. Excerpts from Deutsche Bauerndörfer in Bulgarien by Arno Mehlan (1941) and Die zwei deutschen Bauernsiedlungen in Bulgarien by Dr. Otto Constantini (1938): Banater Monatshefte, Newsletter No. 4/5, year of publication 1938/1939.
To Bulgaria and Back Again (to Banat) by Hans Diplich, 1979. 2013. Original article in German "Nach Bulgarien und wieder zuruck" by Hans Diplich, published in the 1979 Donau-Sc
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2. ‘The Deepest Well of German Life’1
1Since the end of the Second World War, historians have variously characterised the leadership of the National Socialist state as ‘a rationally organised and highly perfected system of terrorist rule’;2 or as necessarily chaotic, with Adolf Hitler ultimately holding the key to power as the ultimate arbiter of a polycratic structure of leadership;3 or even as an ‘authoritarian anarchy’.4
2Whatever the historical reality — order or chaos, irrationality or well-oiled bureaucracy — the visual manifestation of the National Socialist leadership at least, was artfully manufactured to present an unambiguous hierarchy of representatives of the Führerprinzip). Such a hierarchy and its legitimacy during and following the years of struggle was, unsurprisingly, reiterated regularly in visual terms by National Socialist publications and, of course, in the writings of the political leaders themselves. The principle permeated the state from Hitle