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Unlucky in Love
GIUSEPPE PENNISI visits Pisa for
The Tales of Hoffmann
In Jacques Offenbach's Les contes d'Hoffmann, the protagonist (a poet and a would-be womanizer, but with very little luck) tells his life and unlucky love stories to a group of drinking buddies while awaiting his latest would-be conquest, an opera singer, Stella, who is performing in Mozart's Don Giovanni. The stories he tells are more bitter than sweet; in each act, he courts unsuccessfully a different woman. When Don Giovanni is over and Stella arrives, the poor fellow is totally drunk. Of course, she goes out to dinner (and what not) with some other chap...
Copyright © 13 February 2014
Giuseppe Pennisi,
Rome, Italy
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