Baroque strip tease

J osef Von Sternberg remains best known as the director of a sequence of films with Marlene Dietrich in the thirties, starting with The Blue Angel in Germany and then continuing in Hollywood. Still he retains a certain legendary splendour, an aura of the days when Hollywood was really Hollywood. Throughout this period Von Sternberg fought a continuous bitter battle for full control over the films which he was directing, in order to put into effect the theories of cinema which he had developed. This struggle met with limited and uneven success. Indeed it was not until his very last film, made not in Hollywood but in Japan, that Von Sternberg was allowed anything like the freedom he desired.

One weeknight in , a sophomore music student at the University of North Texas sat on the floor of her apartment and listened to a cassette tape that changed the course of her life. A year-old Racette followed along with the score, captivated by the vocal and dramatic opulence of the art she was consuming. My teacher was smart enough to see that, so she gave me a little pain and suffering. She remains a regular on the Met stage. At this point in her career, Racette says, those vocal and dramatic challenges are exactly what she is craving. This production marks the 12th time she and L. Opera music director James Conlon have collaborated over the last 20 years.

Saucy opera Lulu, was written in by Austrian composer Alban Berg. It includes a musical portrait of his domestic life with his family, with an x-rated musical love scene between the composer and his wife. Walton's opera, The Bear, boasts a saucy plot involving unfaithful lovers, resulting in a duel where they point loaded pistols at each other. The orchestral playing is wonderfully meaty and the lush string chords complement the trumpet playing perfectly. Of course she did.

This piece is about 14 printed pages long. The Gurlesque describes an emerging field of female artists now in their 20s, 30s, and early 40s who, taking a page from the burlesque, perform their femininity in a campy or overtly mocking way. Their work assaults the norms of acceptable female behavior by irreverently deploying gender stereotypes to subversive ends. Many people associate burlesque with its s incarnation, the strip-tease, which was a far cry from the early years of the burlesque theater — the s to the s — which were pioneered almost exclusively by troupes of female actresses under the direction of other women in Victorian London. Their dance hall repertoire was an antecedent of vaudeville, only much more socially explosive.