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Don Giuliani
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May 16, 2000 | NEW YORK -- Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
CHARACTERS Also: Peasants, Villagers, Ladies, Gentlemen, the Heads That Talk. ACT 1 In a courtyard of the Mansion of Gracie in Seville, Teitelbaumo, Don Giuliani's servant, complains that his life is drudgery -- while his master is indoors with a woman, he must keep watch in the dark. Don Giuliani, the mayor of Seville, suddenly enters from inside the mansion, pursued by his wife, Donna Hanna, who is determined to learn the identity of her husband's latest conquest. On a Seville street at dawn, Teitelbaumo meekly contemplates his master's immoral ways. Don Giuliani angrily rebukes him and begins planning another amorous adventure. Donna Cristyne enters, swearing either to win back her faithless lover or to seek revenge against him. As Don Giuliani emerges to comfort the suffering beauty, he recognizes her as one of the many women he has seduced, promised to marry and deserted. He slips away, instructing Teitelbaumo to advise her to forget him and to find love elsewhere -- say, with a golf writer. Teitelbaumo shows Donna Cristyne a catalog in which he has recorded Don Giulianni's conquests. The outraged Donna Cristyne exits to plot revenge. In the countryside of Chappaquanito, a peasant woman, Hillario, embarks upon a "listening tour" of Spain so as to maybe rule over it one day. Happening upon the scene with Teitelbaumo, Don Giuliani sets his sights on running against and defeating Hillario -- whose husband is Don Giuliani's only rival for the title of most-accomplished swordsman in all the land -- and springs into action. He decides that he will combat Hillario by proclaiming to all how immoral and value-challenged Hillario and her spouse are, demanding that the Ten Commandments be posted in school houses throughout the land and that the shoppes of ill-repute in midtown Seville be closed. ACT II In the garden of Don Giuliani's palace, Teitelbaumo berates Paparazzo, the town crier, for even thinking about telling the people of Seville about Don Giuliani's social life. Showing uncommon restraint, Paparazzo complies. Donna Hanna appears and performs a moving aria, confiding to Hillario about her past attempts to get close to her estranged husband and how every time she tried to embrace him, Donna Cristyne would appear and inform her that she needed time to "brief" her boss. Hillario nods understandingly: Her spouse is in the middle of a countrywide scandal involving an ample-bosomed young waif [as Paparazzo describes in graphic detail in an animated aside]. Teitelbaumo and Don Giuliani huddle, thinking of other ways to spread other unflattering news about Hillario throughout the land. Meanwhile, as Teitelbaumo sends parchments to the far corners of Spain, where Hillario's spouse is despised (though careful not to send such parchments in Seville, where he is beloved) Don Giuliani and Donna Judi retire to a room in a local Inne where she provides him with what Don Giuliani calls "advice" and "support." Meanwhile, Donna Hanna, in rags, begins wandering the land, weeping and crying out for reconciliation with her husband, as well as any choice dramatic roles, should casting agents be interested. Donna Hanna runs inside when her husband and Donna Judi march from a high-profile brunch eatery together into the middle of a parade of drunken Irishmen toasting their saint, and then into a reception for Paparazzo and the Heads That Talk. In a moving aria, Donna Judi proclaims her love for the "dreamboat" mayor of Seville. Meanwhile, as Don Giuliani -- accompanied by Donna Judi -- bobs from Inne to campaign event to Inne to parade, Teitelbaumo sends out parchments accusing Hillario of displaying "hostility toward Seville's religious traditions" and accusing her spouse of "ethical lapses." Another parchment, from a friend of Don Giuliani, calls Hillario "far more liberal and corrupt than her husband." Still another calls the couple "two charlatans." Don Giuliani berates a painting at the Seville museum of art for offending his Catholic sensibilities, after which he retreats to an Inne with Donna Judi for more advice and support. While a small orchestra strikes up a minuet in honor of Don Giuliani, Emperor Pataki rears his head and wonders aloud, mainly to Lazio and Damato, if Don Giuliani can hold off the speechless Hillario. Suddenly, Don Giuliani enters and announces he is battling a serious illness. INTERMISSION
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