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I myself had that exact dream when I was fifteen, except her name was Madame Prefontaine, not Madame Vega.
The phenomenon is common enough that, last year, it constituted the plot of a critically acclaimed film, "I Am Not Madame Bovary".
"It's not Madame Royal, but Mademoiselle Royal," the woman (also portrayed by Mr. Canteloup) said, adding that for some time she had wanted the job of France's first lady.
Up to a point, the strategy works well – but in the process Katerina is sentimentalised (her monicker is Lady Macbeth, after all, not Madame Bovary) and without the bitter laughter at the idiocy of life that was so fundamental to Shostakovich's mentality, the effect is a bit flat and colourless – opera in the manner of television drama.
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Wasn't "Madame Bovary" looked at as scandalous at the time?
And I could have done without the bit of opera while Firth plans his own death (at least it wasn't Madame Butterfly).
Sinead Cusack (another famous spouse--Jeremy Irons was sitting just a few rows away from Kate W) is a fine, but not exciting Madame Ranevskaya, the spendthrifty lady whose orchard is being sold off for debts (I'm afraid my last Madame was the alluring Annette Bening at the Mark Taper Forum in LA).
Not: Sorry, Madame.
Gustave Flaubert, when not writing "Madame Bovary," found time for a 19th-century version of sexual tourism in Egypt and described it enthusiastically.
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