Atkinson
Recital Hall, NMSU Music
Center
Friday, July 16 and Saturday, July 18, 2010
The Story in Photos
Two handsome gondoliers have just sent a letter to the ladies of the piazzetta.
List and learn ye dainty roses, roses white and roses red.
Ladies, we are here—the men you adore.
We? Marco and Giuseppe? Certainly not!
Benedetto, my heart is another's.
Another's? Impossible, when you could have...ME!
Francesco's is open for Breakfast! What will you ladies have today?
A plate of macaroni! And a rusk!
For the Merriest Fellows are We!
Tra-la, tra-la, tra-la, tra-la-la-la-la— tra-la-la-la!
Tra-la-la-la-la-la-la! Tra-la-la-la-la-la-la! Tra-la-la-la! Tra-la-la-la!...
They will choose two ladies, and one may be me.
Ladies, indeed! You're only 8 years old.
Nevertheless, we are waiting!
We're called Gondolieri, but that's a vagary...
...it's quite honorary the trade that we ply! (Why are they fainting?)
And now to choose our brides!
Place these handkerchiefs upon our eyes...
and we will undertake to marry any two of you we catch!
This is Tessa! Rapture, rapture! To me, Gianetta fate has granted just the very girl I wanted!
Giulia! My heart is yours, if you will take it. Fabiana! Loveliest lady in the land, will you be mine?
Of course! Yes, dear Fausto, yes!
From the sunny Spanish shore...The Noble Duke of Plaza-Tor...
You do not possess the accomplishment of tootling such as a cornet-a-piston?
Alas, no, your grace, but I can imitate a farmyard...I do an especially nice cow...'Mooo..."
Ah! Ah! I don't see how that would help us...I don't see how we could...bring it in!
Photo Gallery Under Construction....More to come soon!
When a merry maiden marries, sorrow goes and pleasure tarries...
Goodbye, Giorgio. I'll miss you.
Already married? But we were married 3 months ago! One of you...only one.
Hail to the King and Queen of Barataria!
Duke of Plaza Toro The Duchess Casilda Luiz
Giuseppe Palmieri Tessa Marco Palmieri Gianetta 
Don Alhambra del
Bolero and Inez
Fiametta Vittoria Fabiana Giulia 
Benedetto Fausto Emilio
Francesco Salvatore Donatella Catarina
Giorgio Sofia Serafina Nicoletta 
Natalia Eva
Dance a cachucha,
fandango, bolero!
Ah, well beloved. Then away they go to an island fair!
Photos by Jeannine Estrada, Stacey Hooley, Deb Darmata and Paul K. Andersen