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Some Folk Think the South Pole's Hot: The Three Tenors Play the Antarctic (2002)

by Elke Heidenreich

Other authors: Quint Buchholz (Illustrator)

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The penguins of the South Pole, all dressed up and with no place to go, invite the Three Tenors to come and perform an opera for their amusement.
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Perhaps as close to Dr Seuss as it gets, auf Deutsch? Not in nonsense words, that I identified, so much as rhyme scheme & repetition, to comic effect. The pictures are mildly absurdist: penguins with violin cases, usw. ( )
  elenchus | May 7, 2014 |
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Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti mix with penguins in Some Folk Think the South Pole's Hot: The Three Tenors Play the Antarctic by Elke Heidenreich, illus. by Quint Buchholz, trans. by Aubrey M. Woolman, when the trio heads south to perform La Traviata. The rhyming text may be forced a bit, but fans of the formal-looking birds or of Verdi's opera will want to get a gander at Buchholz's detailed paintings. Not to be missed: the scene of Alfredo (played by Carreras) carting off a fading (but by no means frail) Violetta (played by Pavarotti).

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What's a penguin to do living at the South Pole, all dressed up and with no place to go? What good is that natty tuxedo if there's no occasion to wear it? Well, these are no dumb penguins. They invite, for their amusement, the Opera Ship from Old Vienna, and who are its illustrious passengers? Well, (you guessed it) none other than the three tenors, performing that south Pole favorite to boot, La Traviata, starring Jose Carreras as Alfredo, Placido Domingo as the disapproving father, and Luciano Pavarotti playing the role of the sweet and tender Violetta. Some lucky penguins!
  LBroudy | Apr 17, 2009 |
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