Pictures from the Saturday night performance of Countess Maritza.
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Concert Master Dr. John Woronuk and Violinist Peter Dimoff |
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Manja sings of love |
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Tschekko and Berko talk of Maritza's perpetual abscence |
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Berko speaks to Tschekko about the ways of women |
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Manja finishes her lovely aria |
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Tassilo as Mr.Torok, and his entourage of admiring children in front of Maritza's country estate |
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The children bring gifts to their hero 1 |
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The children bring gifts to their hero 2 |
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The children bring gifts to their hero 3 |
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Tassilo looks at his bounty of gifts while sweet little Margaret Cusson prepares to steal the show from under him...again! |
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Best friends,Tassilo and Baron Liebenberg, reunite after a prolonged abscence |
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Tassilo sings of his longing for Vienna |
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Popolescu makes a pompous entrance and confronts the incognito estate baliff, Tassilo |
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Tassilo calms his friend Liebenberg after a blunt snub from Popolescu |
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Liebenberg reads a clipping from a dissapointed Popolescu that explains the headline news: " Maritza is engaged!" |
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Maritza returns and is greeted heartily by her people |
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The soprano section and Berko hail their returning Countess |
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Maritza sings about her love of gypsy music, as Berko accompanies her. The crowd, with Popolescu and her honoured guests, listen |
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The alto section sings to Maritza |
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Tschekko serves Maritza's guests: Lynn Hill, Frank Grant, Aino Fingethut and Popolescu |
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Maritza teases her newly-met baliff, Mr.Torok (Tassilo) as Ilke and guests, John Temple, Rita Fromme and Raymond Fromme look on |
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Tassilo tries to convince his sister Lisa that his disguise as a Baliff Torok, is part of a bet..and is very much a secret |
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Maritza confides to Ilke that she made up her engagement to a ficticious "Baron Zsupan" to rid herself of pestering fortune-seekers hounding her to marry them |
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The ficticious Zsupan turns out to be a real man...and his personal visit is being announced to the horrofied Maritza as Ilke looks on in surprise |
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Baron Zsupan kisses the hand of his "betrothed" |
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Zsupan tries to woo Maritza 1 |
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Zsupan tries to woo Maritza 2 |
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Zsupan tries to woo Maritza 3 |
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The tenor and soprano section watch with interest |
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Berko plays as Meredith Temple listens |
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From the window of her country house, Maritza looks upon her people, and watches Tassilo with greater interest |
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As the crowd and Lisa watches, Tassilo refuses to repeat a song he just sang, after Maritza snobbishly demands that he does so |
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Popolescu and Zsupan each think they hold the arm of the lovely Maritza as they flirt with her. Onlookers laugh at the spectacle |
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Tenors and sopranos sing alongside Zsupan |
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Manja appears and sings of fortune telling, as Zsupan, the guests and the crowd curiously watch |
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Manja compells Maritza to have her fortune read |
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Manja reads Maritza's palm |
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Zsupan, Berko, the guests and the crowd lean in to evesdrop and sing of the virtues of fortune-telling, as Manja tells Maritza's future |
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Berko plays for Tassilo |
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Tassilo, accompanied by Berko, sings of his love for gypsy music |
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