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FEATHERY FERNS ARE A PERFECT BACKDROP.(AT HOME)
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Byline: LAURENCE SOMBKE Special to the Times Union
Delicate, feathery, green ferns are an easy family of plants to grow in a partly shaded back yard. Many ferns are native to the Northeast and grow profusely in the wild.
The naturalistic, wild look of ferns makes them perfect backdrops for woodland plants that bloom in spring like bloodroot (Sanguinaria), Virginia bluebells (Mertensia), Wake Robin (Trillium) and woodland phlox (Phlox divaricata).
Fern mania swept England in the 1880s and '90s, as romantic Victorians added them to their ...
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Passion flower
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...closely on a "well-made" melodrama by Victorien Sardou (1831-1908), whose renown survives...screenwriting, it would be tough to stage Sardou's La Tosca, Fedora or Madame Sans-Gene nowadays. Sardou wrote for an audience that relished...
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Fact or fiction?
Magazine article from: Musical Times
; ...335pp; 31.50. ISBN 0 226 57971 9. Victorien Sardou set his play La Tosca in the Rome of 1800...the way. Nicassio first concentrates on Sardou's play, which was premiered in November 1887. Sardou, a Parisian, was concerned less with...
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Tosca's Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective.(Review)
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...background of this opera and the play by Victorien Sardou on which it is based. This engrossing...ed., 1999) out-Sardoodles Sardou (pace C. B. Shaw) by tying...first chapter to revealing how Sardou's late-nineteenthcentury viewpoint...
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Met ignites passion, intrigue of `Fedora'.(Arts)(Television)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...melodrama by French playwright Victorien Sardou, whose "Fedora" was originally...Czar Alexander II by Nihilists, Sardou's play was scandalous and sensational...composer Umberto Giordano, who asked Sardou if he could adapt the play for...
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WISE CRACKS
Magazine article from: New Orleans Magazine
; ...dining midday on eggs Benedict, Sardou or Hussarde - they sound like names...Antoine's Restaurant, created eggs Sardou on the occasion of a dinner he hosted for the French playwright Victorien Sardou. Brennan's elaborate egg menu...
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New Orleans-Style Brunch Is Living Dangerously
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; A NEW ORLEANS BRUNCH Eggs Sardou (STAR) Bread pudding souffle with...elaborate, elegant egg dishes, eggs Sardou, was created in 1908 at Antoine...dinner for the French playwright Victorien Sardou. For a delicious variation, substitute...
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Book review: The history of an extraordinary centenarian Friday Book Tosca's Rome: the play and the opera in historical perspective by Susan Vandiver Nicassio (University of Chicago Press, pounds 31.50)
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Puccini's opera; she also dissects Victorien Sardou's play La Tosca, premiered in...his next opera. Some would say Sardou and Puccini deserved each other...might have provided Puccini, via Sardou, with his models, in the process...
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KNOW IT ALL.(MAIN)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; ...York City restaurant menu, they listed eggs Sardou. I didn't ask what they were; I wish I...with butter, flour, milk and Tabasco. Eggs Sardou (named for French dramatist Victorien Sardou) is the specialty at Antoine's restaurant...
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Giordano: Fedora.(Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York)
Magazine article from: The New Leader
; ...It is based on a melodrama written by Victorien Sardou for Sarah Bernhardt, and like Tosca (also derived from Sardou) this is a diva vehicle, giving the...Perhaps Bernhardt could bring this off in Sardou's ampler version, but Arturo Colautti...
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Signature Dishes Made New Orleans Famous
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...menus throughout the world. Eggs Sardou - One of New Orleans' most popular breakfast-brunch dishes, eggs Sardou - poached eggs with artichoke hearts...hosted for the French playwright Victorien Sardou. Muffuletta - Central Grocery...
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