Miss Fuego: Where's Jonny? Part 6
Miss Fuego starts todays Jonny search from Juliette's Balcony in Verona, Italy.
In Shakespeare's classic, Romeo and Juliette, Juliette poses a question to the night from her balcony. She asks, Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?. At a popular tourist attraction, a balcony that is considered to be that of Juliette, Miss Fuego poses the same question...this time, to Jonny K.
In the courtyard of the House of Capulet a statue of Juliette commemorates the character and play. Tourists place their hands on the breasts of the statue. Girls touch them for good luck on finding their own Romeo, or for fertility. Men grope them...for other reasons. Miss Fuego is appalled they aren't even offering the customary dollar for copping a feel. Shameless.
Miss Fuego marches through the city of Verona, continuing her crusade. She happens upon costumed centurions in front of the Verona coliseum. After hundreds of years, the venue is still used for concerts and events. One centurion seems to think Miss Fuego is posing for a still picture with him and is hesitant to respond. The others are three sheets to the wind. She finds them at a bar just a stone's throw from the coliseum. Miss Fuego also ventures into the coliseum, which is being prepared for the evening concert.
Shuffling through the streets, crestfallen, Miss Fuego, like Juliette, poses a question to the night, Can't anyone help me find my Jonny? The answer to her question catches her off guard. A voice assures her, Jonny K is within you. Confused and confronted with this supernatural experience, she rushes back to her hotel room.
The next morning she thinks over what she experienced the previous night. Opened on the bed is Jonny's bag; the bag from which she emerged in Paris, the bag she's been carrying faithfully all along. Missing Jonny, she looks over his things and discovers something she hadn't seen before. A tall white wig and feathered outfit. As if possessed by the same power that spoke to her the night before, she dons the couture and reconvenes the quest. Where to next? Venice.
Summary of Previous Episodes:
Part 1: Miss Fuego wakes up in Jonny's bag to find she's alone in Paris. She asks strangers if they've seen him and begins her quest across Europe.
Part 2: Miss Fuego searches Munich, Salzburg, and the Austrian mountains.
Part 3: The people of the Tyrol region of northern Austria/Italy get a surprise visit from Miss Fuego. We visit Innsbruck, the sunken church of Curon at lake Resia, and the village of Imst. There, we leave Miss Fuego passed out in a bar.
Part 4: Miss Fuego journeys through the apple orchards of Austria and into the Dolomites, the Italian Alps!
Part 5: Miss Fuego searches the city of Bolzano, Italy, through the vineyards of Trento, to the water's edge of Riva del Garda.
Prokofiev: Romeo And Juliet, Op.64 / Act 1 - 17. Tybalt Recognizes Romeo
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Prokofiev: Romeo And Juliet, Op.64 / Act 1 - 17. Tybalt Recognizes Romeo · Boston Symphony Orchestra · Seiji Ozawa
Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet, op.64
℗ 1987 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Released on: 1987-01-01
Producer: Hanno Rinke
Producer, Recording Producer: Wolfgang Stengel
Studio Personnel, Balance Engineer: Hans-Peter Schweigmann
Studio Personnel, Recording Engineer: Volker Martin
Studio Personnel, Editor: Helmut Burk
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
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Verona (Italian pronunciation: [veˈroːna] (listen); Venetian: Verona or Veròna) is a city on the Adige river in Veneto, Italy, with 258,108 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the second largest city municipality in the region and the third largest in northeast Italy. The metropolitan area of Verona covers an area of 1,426 km2 (550.58 sq mi) and has a population of 714,274 inhabitants. It is one of the main tourist destinations in northern Italy, owing to its artistic heritage and several annual fairs, shows, and operas, such as the lyrical season in the Arena, the ancient amphitheater built by the Romans.
Two of Shakespeare's plays are set in Verona: Romeo and Juliet and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. It is unknown if Shakespeare ever visited Verona or Italy at all, but his plays have lured many visitors to Verona and surrounding cities. The city has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO because of its urban structure and architecture.