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Crunchy crackers, full of flavor..ReplyDelete
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Looks inviting flavorful crackersReplyDelete
very crisp and flavourful beasan mathri..ReplyDelete
Super flavourful crackers,feel like having some..ReplyDelete
Perfect snacks...ReplyDelete
perfect partner for a cup of teaReplyDelete
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I live in Curitiba, not too far from Foz.Recently moved here. earlier I was in Sao Paulo.I am sure we'll meet up sometime.
This is a perfect snack for tea-time.
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Energy Fuels Inc.
Energy Fuels Inc. is the largest conventional producer of uranium in the United States. The company owns the only conventional uranium mill in the U.S., the White Mesa mill in Utah. Energy Fuels also owns several producing and near-producing mines in Utah, Arizona and Colorado. It also owns the Sheep Mountain project, a large advanced-stage uranium development project in Wyoming. The company acquired Titan Uranium in February 2012 and the U.S. mining division of Denison Mines in June 2012, making 2012 a transformational year and positioning Energy Fuels as the leading conventional producer of uranium in the U.S., and a major producer of vanadium.
Energy Fuels Inc. is the largest conventional producer of uranium in the United States. The company owns the only conventional uranium mill in the U.S., the White Mesa mill in Utah. Energy Fuels also owns several producing and near-producing mines in Utah, Arizona and Colorado. It also owns the Sheep Mountain project, a large advanced-stage uranium development project in Wyoming. The company acquired Titan Uranium in February 2012 and the U.S. mining division of Denison Mines in June 2012, making 2012 a transformational year and positioning Energy Fuels as the leading conventional producer of uranium in the U.S., and a major producer of vanadium.
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Maudes Capital, Seeking Alpha (1/20/15)"Energy Fuels Inc. agreed with Uranerz Energy Corp. on Jan. 5, 2015 to merge. . .Uranerz is really a very good acquisition because of the stock market valuation. . .for Energy Fuels, the most important factor is that it will acquire a dominant position in relation to comparable companies. In addition, it will obtain a stronger balance sheet as well as more production and more future projects."
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Vulcan Investments, Seeking Alpha (1/8/15)"Energy Fuels Inc. and Uranerz Energy Corp. announced the execution of a definitive agreement pursuant to which Energy Fuels will acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of Uranerz. . .Mr. Market is seemingly ignoring what appears to be an excellent opportunity. Now may be the time to take advantage before he catches on."
Joe Reagor, ROTH Capital Partners (1/6/15)"Energy Fuels Inc. and Uranerz Energy Corp. announced a merger agreement. We believe the combined entities could have significant synergies and that the combined entity will be better positioned as uranium market fundamentals begin to improve. We are maintaining our Buy rating and $11/share price target."
Canaccord Genuity's Morning Coffee (1/6/15)"Energy Fuels Inc. and Uranerz Energy Corp. have entered into an agreement, whereby Energy Fuels would acquire all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Uranerz in an exchange of shares. . .the transaction is expected to be completed in Q2/15. . .the combination would create the only integrated conventional and in situ recovery uranium mining company focused solely on the U.S."
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David Talbot, Dundee Capital Markets (1/5/15)"We reiterate our Buy recommendation for Energy Fuels Inc. with a CA$9/share target, which assumes this deal will be consummated as it creates a stronger company. . .the new Energy Fuels would be well capitalized with ~$22M cash ($9M Uranerz Corp. /$13M Energy Fuels) and $42.5M debt ($20M Uranerz/$22.5M Energy Fuels).
Jeff Wright, H.C. Wainwright & Co. (1/5/15)"On January 5, 2015, Energy Fuels Inc. announced a proposed acquisition of Uranerz Energy Corp. . .ultimately, we believe the transaction should be accretive for shareholders of both companies as various corporate synergies could be realized in a reduction of combined corporate G&A. . .the combined company is expected to have a diversified asset base. . .Energy Fuels is poised to take advantage of a rising spot uranium price environment."
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Jeff Wright, H.C. Wainwright & Co. (11/14/14)"For Q3/14, Energy Fuels Inc. reported net income of $3.1M on revenues of $21.2M. . .the company sold 371,666 lb U3O8 at an average selling price of $56.72/lb. Notably, the Q3/14 sales fulfilled Energy Fuels' delivery commitments under existing long-term contracts for the remainder of the year."
Colin Healey, Haywood Securities (11/13/14)"In Q3/14, Energy Fuels Inc. reported uranium sales of 371.7 Klb U3O8 at an average realized price of $56.72, representing a large premium to the spot price for the quarter and generating $21.1M in revenue. . .the company generated net income of $3.1M, or $0.16/share. . .we reiterate our Buy rating."
David Talbot, Dundee Capital Markets (11/13/14)"We reiterate our Buy recommendation on Energy Fuels Inc. . .Q3/14 proved to be a good quarter with EPS, revenue and costs all beating Dundee estimates. . .up 28% month-over-month on rising uranium prices, the company still maintains its strong discount to peers on almost all metrics."
David Talbot, Dundee Capital Markets (11/7/14)"Energy Fuels Inc. is 100% hedged right now at ~$55/lb U3O8 but still enjoys strong leverage as higher prices are required to unlock its numerous mines on care and maintenance, plus its halted Canyon shaft sinking and two other larger deposits sitting in the wings (another 4�5 Mlb/year in production)."
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Rob Chang, Cantor Fitzgerald (10/16/14)"We are maintaining our Buy recommendation and are increasing our target price to $10.50 from $10 previously. . .since our July 25 update, the company has decreased by 20%, underperforming the U3O8 spot price, which advanced by 25%."
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Joe Reagor, ROTH Capital Partners (8/18/14)"Energy Fuels Inc. announced its financial and operating results for Q2/14. A $31M asset write-down negatively impacted results, but otherwise it was a relatively strong quarter. We continue to view the company as a unique junior uranium producer, given its production flexibility; we are maintaining our Buy rating and $11/share price target."
Rob Chang, Cantor Fitzgerald (8/15/14)"Energy Fuels Inc. announced Q2/14 (three months ended June 30, 2014) financial results that beat our estimates. Revenues of $13.52M during the quarter topped our $12.23M estimate on the back of higher than forecasted sales (236,667 lb U3O8 versus 206,425 lb). . .we are reiterating our Buy recommendation."
David Talbot, Dundee Capital Markets (8/14/14)"We reiterate our Buy recommendation with a target price of $14/share for Energy Fuels Inc. The company announced Q2/14 financial and operating results overnight. Overall, no major surprises, with adjusted earnings, revenue and cost in line. We still like Energy Fuels; it is effectively 100% hedged, and able to buy uranium at spot and sell into term contracts twice the price. It has three long-term contracts each with 2�4 years remaining."
Rob Chang, Cantor Fitzgerald (7/3/14)"Energy Fuels Inc. announced a definitive agreement to sell certain non-core assets to a private investor group. . .Energy Fuels is to receive $2.05M for the asset sale. . .Pinon Ridge Mill was the second mill asset owned by Energy Fuels and was one that we did not expect operate in the foreseeable future. While the proceeds of the sale were small, the monetization of the asset is positive since we were assigning a value of zero for the asset previously. . .Energy Fuel's focus is now more streamlined on key pipeline projects such as Roca Honda, Gas Hills, and Sheep Mountain."
David Talbot, Dundee Capital Markets (7/3/14)"We reiterate our Buy recommendation with a target price of $16/share on Energy Fuels Inc. The company announced this morning that is has entered into an agreement to sell several noncore uranium assets to a private investor group. . .it plans to sell the Pinon Ridge project and eight past-producing mines and development projects for $2.05M, or $0.43/lb."
Rob Chang, Cantor Fitzgerald (5/14/14)"Energy Fuels Inc.'s release highlights its excellent term-contract portfolio to which 100% of sales are being sold into. . .and the company strengthened its financial position during the quarter as it added $9.7M cash due to the completion of the replacement of its regulatory bonding portfolio that released $12.3M of previously restricted cash."
Colin Healey, Haywood Securities (5/14/14)"Energy Fuels Inc. 's Q1/14 financial and operating results indicate the correct strategy for current market. . .the company was able to manage positive operating cash flow (before changes in working capital) of US$0.51M, or US$0.026/ share, in a very difficult uranium market, as it focuses on leveraging its attractively priced contracting book in FY/14 while positioning itself to take advantage of its extensive suite of production-ready and near-ready uranium assets in a rising uranium price environment."
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Deborah Bacal, Proactive Investors (4/23/14)"Energy Fuels Inc. said it has revised its plans and will continue mining at its Pinenut mine in Arizona through this year and into the first quarter of 2015. It had previously said it would place production at the mine on standby by mid-2014. The company cited favorable mining conditions and lower-than-expected costs as reasons for the change."
Rob Chang, Cantor Fitzgerald (4/3/14)"Energy Fuels Inc.'s White Mesa mill represents the only operating conventional mill in the U.S. . .U.S. consolidation remains a focus: As was recently seen with the Strathmore Minerals Ltd. acquisition, Energy Fuels looks to continue its role as a U.S. uranium property consolidator. . .at just under 100 Mlb of resource, Energy Fuels has the largest NI 43-101 resource inventory out of any U.S.-focused producer."
David Talbot, Dundee Capital Markets (3/31/14)"We recommend Energy Fuels Inc. as a Buy with a target price of CA$17. . .so what drives value for this stock? Leverage to rising uranium prices and high margin sales into long-term contracts, which already hit floors. About 66% of our NAV is from pipeline projects that depend on higher uranium prices, primarily Sheep Mountain and Roca Honda; but until then, we expect value to be driven from existing brownfields, and near-term production assets."
Rob Chang Interview with Resource Investing News (3/26/14)"There are a couple of really compelling points for Energy Fuels Inc. First off, when you look at the fact that it owns the only conventional mill in the entire U.S., that's an important strategic advantage. . .the second thing is that it has a very impressive portfolio of projects and past-producing operations to the point where even though it is not currently operating in the current low price environment, quite a few can be turned on within six months."
Rob Chang, Cantor Fitzgerald (3/3/14)"Energy Fuels Inc. has announced that it has completed the restructuring of its US$28M regulatory bonding portfolio, utilizing three different qualified sureties. As a result, the company has released US$12.3M of previously restricted cash, as required by the former underwriter. . .the US$12.3M of released funds provides Energy Fuels with additional operational and development flexibility as it continues to position its projects to increase uranium production as market conditions warrant."
Sheldon Modeland, Edison Investment Research (2/25/14)"Energy Fuels Inc.'s 100%-owned White Mesa mill is the only conventional mill in operation within the U.S., and has the capacity to produce up to 8 Mlb U3O8 per annum. In addition, the mill has a co-recovery vanadium circuit, as vanadium is commonly found in the uranium-bearing ore from the Colorado Plateau area. More importantly, the mill is the only facility in North America with the current capability to process low-cost alternate feeds, such as uranium-bearing tailings or residues from uranium conversion. . .[Energy Fuels' acquisition of Strathmore Minerals] makes the company one of the largest players in the U.S. uranium market, with an overall resource at 127 Mlb U3O8 (when considering all measured, indicated and inferred categories). . . We expect to see higher production rates should prices improve on the back of potential restart of some Japanese reactors and the recent expiration of the HEU agreement."
David Talbot, Dundee Capital Markets (2/25/14)"Energy Fuels Inc. has leverage to rising uranium prices; has high-priced contracts and is effectively 100% hedged; it has an effective and acquisitive management team; massive expansion potential; its cost profile is coming down; it can turn on production quickly as uranium prices rise; and it has a deep project pipeline. It is one of our top picks."
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David Talbot, Dundee Capital Markets (2/3/14)"Energy Fuels Inc. is leveraged to rising uranium prices and has high-priced contracts that make it effectively 100% hedged. The company has an effective and acquisitive management team and its projects have massive expansion potential. . .Energy Fuels is not sensitive to near-term fluctuations in the uranium price, but also has incredible long-term leverage to rising prices."
Seeking Alpha Interview with Mickey Fulp (1/14/14)"Energy Fuels Inc. is simply trading at a much lower valuation than its U.S. peers, even though its production growth potential is a lot higher; the company has in sight potential to produce up to 6 Mlb/year when the uranium price rebounds. The in-situ recovery players all appear to max out at annual production of about 1�1.5 Mlb in the short to midterm; that's about what Energy Fuels is producing now."
Christopher Wallace, Seeking Alpha (12/18/13)"Energy Fuels Inc. is a substantially undervalued uranium producer with attractive midterm contracts at above-spot prices, unique assets and a strong management team that is executing a very strategic business plan. . .excess processing capacity, producing mines that can quickly and inexpensively be taken off standby; [a] large industry participant as a strategic relationship partner; [a] strong, experienced management with strategic vision and significant exploration and development potential make the company a valuable call on uranium prices."
Colin Healey, Haywood Securities (12/18/13)"Energy Fuels Inc. has strengthened ties with KEPCO. . .a new agreement further solidifies Energy Fuel's relationship with a world-class utility in KEPCO, and formalizes joint examination of certain Wyoming uranium assets with an eye on potential cooperative development, laying the first steps toward the creation of a second U.S. production center for Energy Fuels, and provides Energy Fuels qualified access to bid on future uranium supply contracts."
David Talbot, Dundee Capital Markets (12/18/13)"We recommend Energy Fuels Inc. as a Buy with a target price of CA$17. The company announced it has entered into a formal strategic relationship with KEPCO, South Korea's largest electric utility. . . Energy Fuels is the only U.S. uranium developer with such a strategic deal with an end user. . .the company looks cheap on EVERY metric. This remains one of our favored stocks, especially in a low uranium price environment."
Thomas Pfister, RedChip Companies Inc. (12/4/13)"There is significant upside potential for Energy Fuels Inc., the leading conventional uranium producer in the U.S. Higher uranium prices could lead to a six-fold jump in production."
Rob Chang, Cantor Fitzgerald (12/3/13)"Energy Fuels Inc. has announced that its common stock has been approved for listing on the NYSE MKT. Trading under the ticker symbol UUUU is to commence at the opening of the market tomorrow on Dec. 4. . .Energy Fuels is currently the largest conventional uranium producer in the United States, supplying approximately 25% of the uranium produced in the United States. . .a NYSE listing will increase the company's visibility in the United States and open itself to a new investor base."
Colin Healey, Haywood Securities (12/3/13)"Energy Fuels Inc. announced that its common stock has been approved for listing on the NYSE MKT exchange, with trading expected to commence on Wednesday, Dec. 4, under the ticker UUUU. . .listing on a major American exchange should increase the company's profile and accessibility with one of the world's largest financial markets, where Energy Fuels is responsible for ~25% of U.S. domestic uranium production. . .favorable uranium term sales contract exposure in FY/13�14 helps insulate Energy Fuels from sustained low uranium prices while we await recovery in the sector as positive supply-demand fundamentals are expected to prevail."
Jim Wallingford, Seeking Alpha (11/27/13)"Unlike some of its junior brethren, Energy Fuels Inc. has a strong balance sheet; as of September 30, working capital totaled $32.496M, with cash equivalents of $12.4M. . .the management team looks solid, comprised of engineers and financial executives with numerous years of experience."
Brent Cook, Exploration Insights (11/17/13)"Energy Fuels Inc. is buying at spot and delivering into higher priced contracts. Current average total cash cost of production is ~$30/lb. . .the company is projected to become profitable in 2014."
Colin Healey, Haywood Securities (11/15/13)"Energy Fuels Inc. has effectively amassed a strategic land package in the United States surrounding the White Mesa mill, which could support an extended mine life in an elevated uranium price environment. . .with the 426 Klb U3O8 in inventory as of Sept. 30, the company is guiding to exit the year with ~526 Klb U3O8 in inventory. This will set the company up nicely to meet sales contracts in 2014."
David Talbot, Dundee Capital Markets (11/15/13)"Energy Fuels Inc.'s fiscal Q4/13 financial and operating results were released. . .positive cash flow from operations of $5.05M was generated. Extra pounds were sold opportunistically to a long-term contract holder, thus sales totaled ~456,000 lb U3O8 compared to guidance of ~256,000 lb. . .should higher uranium prices return, we believe that Energy Fuels is capable of turning the mill back online rapidly, and restarting operations at Pinenut. . .the company has potential to increase mid- to long-term production to the 3�5 Mlb range with its current suite of projects."
David Talbot, Dundee Capital Markets (11/7/13)"We recommend Energy Fuels Inc. as a Buy with a target price of CA$17/share, adjusted from $0.75 after incorporating recently acquired Strathmore Minerals Corp. assets, a $5M equity financing, deferral of Canyon Mine shaft-sinking, resource valuation adjustment and share consolidation of 50:1. . .Energy Fuels looks cheap on essentially every metric."
Colin Healey, Haywood Securities (11/6/13)"Energy Fuels Inc.'s share rollback has no direct impact on our gross valuation. The company's announcement of its application for listing on a U.S. exchange is positive. . .we view a U.S. listing of Energy Fuels shares as a potentially positive catalyst."
Colin Healey, Haywood Securities (11/1/13)"Energy Fuels Inc. announced that a 50:1 share consolidation received shareholder approval. . .as a domestic energy producer, we believe that the company will be treated favorably when competing for contracts for uranium supply in an environment where increasing energy independence is a strategic goal for the United States."
Sheldon Modeland, Edison Investment Research (10/29/13)"With its recent acquisition of Strathmore Minerals Corp., Energy Fuels Inc. is closer to achieving its goal of becoming the leading U.S. U3O8 producer and a midtier global producer. During FY/13, the company expects to produce 1.2 Mlb U3O8, making it the second-largest U.S. producer, and has the potential to increase its annual production (up to 6x) as market conditions improve."
Markus Aarnio, Seeking Alpha (10/18/13)"There have been four different insiders buying and no insiders selling Energy Fuels Inc. stock during the last 30 days. Three of these four insiders increased their holdings by more than 10%. Additionally, three different analysts have Buy ratings on the company. . .I believe the stock could be a good pick based on the intensive insider buying."
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Colin Healey, Haywood Securities (9/9/13)"Energy Fuels Inc.'s acquisition of Strathmore Minerals Inc. fortifies strategic ties and sweetens its project pipeline. . .the acquisition accretes value for Energy Fuels shareholders and reduces risk. The company's attributable NI 43-101 all-categories resource base increases 79% to 127 Mlb U3O8."
Michael Allison, Seeking Alpha (8/29/13)"I believe that Energy Fuels Inc. offers a great opportunity for investors interested in the uranium sector and who are also interested in investing in micro-caps. . .in my opinion and the opinion of a number of other analysts, this company has a great management team who seem to be doing all of the right things to put it in a prime position as a high-potential investment in the nuclear energy sector."
Rob Chang, Cantor Fitzgerald (8/14/13)"Energy Fuels Inc. shareholders overwhelmingly approved a previously announced acquisition of Strathmore Minerals Corp. . .the acquisition will lead to operational synergies as Energy Fuels' White Mesa mill is located relatively close to Strathmore assets, such as the 28.7 Mlb Roca Honda project in New Mexico. Geographical synergies will also be realized between Energy Fuels' 30.2 Mlb Sheep Mountain project in Wyoming and various mining claims owned by Strathmore that are contiguous with Sheep Mountain, as well as the latter's 10.9 Mlb U3O8 Gas Hills and Juniper Ridge projects."
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Wall Street Advisors, Seeking Alpha (7/30/13)"Energy Fuels Inc. stands particularly poised to benefit from what seems to be a consensus among analysts will be a near-term significant rise in uranium spot prices. . .it owns the only licensed, operating conventional uranium mill in the U.S. . .Energy Fuels will deliver ~1 Mlb uranium in its current fiscal year pursuant to contracts with three different utilities at. . .a 60%+ premium to the current spot price. . .Energy Fuels offers the best combination of limited downside in current market conditions and leveraged upside to rising prices in the uranium spot price market."
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Rob Chang, Cantor Fitzgerald (7/24/13)"We are initiating coverage on Energy Fuels Inc. with a Buy recommendation and a $0.23/share target. . .the company is expected to produce 1.2 Mlb U3O8 in 2013, thus ranking it among the top producers in the U.S. . .Energy Fuels owns the only operating conventional mill in the U.S. and is the sole provider of toll milling services in the country. . .it has three established uranium sales contracts that we estimate to have an average realized price of above $60/lb through 2015."
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David Talbot, Dundee Capital Markets (5/27/13)"Energy Fuels Inc. signed an LOI to acquire all outstanding shares of Strathmore Minerals at an exchange ratio of 1.47 Energy Fuels for every 1 Strathmore share; this values Strathmore at $28.2M, or $0.23/share for a 26.6% premium as of Energy Fuels' May 23, 2013, close. . .this deal is yet another example of Energy Fuels' desire to become an intermediate uranium producer, the clear conventional choice in the U.S., and is positioning itself to be a unique vehicle in an otherwise small sector. . .Energy Fuels has strong leverage to rising uranium prices."
TER: Energy Fuels has four producing mines and a number of others that are still in development. Do you like that mixture?
MB: Absolutely. Mines are finite producers. A mine is like a loaf of bread. You get so many sandwiches out of it and then you've got to get another loaf of bread. I love to see companies that have mines in production, mines about to go into production and several exploration projects. That's the ideal mining company. read more >
Colin Healey, Haywood Securities (5/13/13)"We reiterate our Buy rating on Energy Fuels Inc. . .with cash costs per pound of uranium on the higher quartile of the marginal cost curve, the company has the potential to offer significant upside in a strengthening uranium price environment. . .investment in Energy Fuels provides exposure to two sectors (uranium and vanadium) with robust underlying demand fundamentals, which will lead to a sustained improvement in metal price and stability that further enhances resource value and diversifies risk."
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Sports-related curses
|The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (February 2015)
A sports-related curse is a superstitious belief in the effective action of some power or evil, that is used to explain the failures or misfortunes of specific sports teams, players, or even cities. Teams, players, and cities often cite a "curse" for many negative things, such as their inability to win a sports championship, or unexpected injuries.
- 1 American football
- 2 Association football
- 3 Baseball
- 4 Gaelic football
- 5 Ice hockey
- 6 Motor sports
- 7 Other sports
- 8 Multiple sports
- 9 References
American football[edit]
Arizona Cardinals[edit]
The Cardinals NFL franchise is allegedly suffering a curse[1] by the citizens of Pottsville, Pennsylvania for undeservedly claiming the 1925 NFL championship from the Pottsville Maroons who were stripped of their title by the NFL in one of the greatest controversies in sports history. The curse will supposedly only be lifted when the championship is returned to Pottsville and to the correct shade of red team. The Cardinals team holds the NFL record for the longest championship drought. Arizona also lost Super Bowl XLIII to another Pennsylvania team: the Pittsburgh Steelers (whose founder Art Rooney supported Pottsville's claim to the title). The franchise also leads the NFL in the total number of losses (716 through the 2013 season according to Pro Football Reference).
Chicago Bears[edit]
George Halas, owner of the Chicago Bears hired a cheerleading squad in 1977 known as the Honey Bears. When he died in 1983, he left the team to his daughter, Virginia Halas McCaskey. Virginia McCaskey did not like the cheerleaders at all because she saw them as "sex objects", and tried to have them disbanded, but the Honey Bears had a contract through the 1985 season. The Bears lost only one regular season game that year and won Super Bowl XX, but the Honey Bears contract was not renewed. In spite of repeated attempts to bring back the Honey Bears, the idea has been killed by the organization, and the Bears have not won the Super Bowl since then.[2] The last time the Bears appeared in the Super Bowl was Super Bowl XLI. They were defeated by Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts by a score of 29–17.
Detroit Lions[edit]
In 1958, the Detroit Lions traded Bobby Layne to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Layne responded to the trade by supposedly saying that the Lions would "not win for 50 years".[3] This story has been disputed as being a hoax, particularly because the quote was never published at the time.[4]
Still, for the next 50 years after the trade, the Lions accumulated the worst winning percentage of any team in the NFL. They are still one of only two franchises that have been in the NFL since 1970 that have not played in a Super Bowl (the other team is the Cleveland Browns, but because of the three-year franchise suspension after the 1995 season, the Lions' streak is longer). The Lions postseason record in this time was 1-10 in ten appearances, their lone playoff win coming against Dallas following the 1991 season. In the last year of the supposed curse, in 2008, Detroit went 0-16, the first team to lose every game of a sixteen-game season. When the Pittsburgh Steelers won their fifth Super Bowl championship in 2006, they won it at Ford Field, the Lions' current home.
Madden NFL[edit]
Prior to 1999, every annual installment of the Madden NFL Franchise primarily featured Madden on its cover. In 1999, Electronic Arts selected Garrison Hearst to appear on the PAL version's cover, and has since featured one of the league's top players on every annual installment despite Madden's opposition.
While appearing on the cover has become an honor akin to appearing on the Wheaties box, much like the Sports Illustrated Cover Jinx, certain players who appeared on Madden video game box art have experienced a decline in performance, usually due to an injury.[5]
When asked about the "Madden Curse", Chris Erb, then director of marketing for Madden, commented, "I don't know that we believe in the curse. The players don't believe in the curse."
Association football[edit]
América de Cali[edit]
The Colombian football team América de Cali was under a curse since 1948. There was a discussion that year, in a meeting held by team owners, about moving América into the professional league. Benjamín Urrea, one of the owners, was opposed to the idea, so he said famously "Let's them do with the team what they want... but I swear to God they will never be champions".[6] He left the room, while the other owners laughed at him, and he never returned to the team. The team had to wait for 31 years to get its first professional title, in 1979. In 1980, journalist Rafael Medina and singer Antonio del Vivar performed an exorcising ritual on América's home field, to help the team to overcome the curse in the Copa Libertadores, the tournament that decides which team is the South American champion. After that performance, the team went to win five straight national titles, but, notwithstanding the seven more national championships that the team has obtained since then, some fans still believe the curse is alive, as América de Cali is famous for not having been able to win this South American title. The team has been four times the runner-up in Copa Libertadores, three of them in a row - 1985, 1986 and 1987. The last of the sequence was especially painful to the fans, as the team lost the title in the last minute of overtime in the third match, when the tie would award them the title due to goal difference, leading a Colombian narrator to a dramatic narration of the goal.[7]
América de Cali is known as The Red Devils because the shield of the team sports a devil, with horns, tail and trident, which lead to some players masking their own shield with tape to overcome the curse, apparently to no avail. During Gabriel Ochoa twelve years tenure as coach the crest was removed from the uniform for personal religious reasons and, after returning to the uniforms, it was removed again in 1992. In 2010 the crest with the devil was revived and the team went into severe financial problems that moved the Colombian football authorities to ask the team to pay its debts if they wanted to play during the 2011 season.[8]
Australia national team[edit]
In a story told in Johnny Warren's 2002 autobiography, Sheilas, Wogs and Poofters,[9] during a trip to play against Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in the 1970 Mexico World Cup qualifiers in Mozambique, members of the Australian national soccer team (nicknamed the "Socceroos"), including Warren, consulted a witch doctor preceding their game. The witch doctor buried bones near the goal-posts and cursed the opposition, and Australia went on to beat Rhodesia 3–1 in the decider. However, the move backfired when the players could not come up with the £1000 demanded by the witch doctor as payment, and he subsequently cursed the team. Subsequently, the Socceroos failed to beat Israel and did not qualify.
Whilst the curse is used as an explanation for failing to qualify for the World Cup for 32 years, including in the last match in the 1994, 1998 and 2002 qualifications, the curse is used in particular reference to the failure to qualify for the 1998 World Cup by drawing on aggregate against Iran, despite leading 2–0 in the second half of the final match of qualification.
The curse was supposedly lifted by John Safran during his 2004 TV series John Safran vs God. After reading the story in Warren's book, Safran travelled to Mozambique and hired a new witch doctor to channel the original to reverse the curse. The following year, the Socceroos not only qualified for the 2006 World Cup, but reached the second round before being beaten by Italy in Kaiserslautern. The Socceroos have since qualified for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups.
Australia did appear in the 1974 FIFA World Cup after the supposed curse had been placed. However, they failed to score a goal in any of their three opening round matches, and were eliminated.[10]
S.L. Benfica[edit]
Béla Guttmann, a former Hungarian footballer and then manager, joined Benfica in 1959 and coached the team to two Portuguese Ligas, two European Cups and one Portuguese Cup title. In 1962, after his second European Cup title, he asked for a pay rise but had his request turned down despite the great success he achieved at the Lisbon club, also having his contract terminated. Then, he cursed the club declaring: "In the next 100 years no Portuguese team will win two European titles and Benfica will never be champions of Europe again without me." Even though F.C. Porto managed to win two European Cups in 1987 and 2004 breaking the first part of the curse, Benfica has appeared in five European Cup finals and three UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League finals since 1962 and lost all eight matches.[11]
Birmingham City F.C.[edit]
|This section needs additional citations for verification. (February 2015)
English football side Birmingham City F.C. played 100 years under an alleged curse from 1906 to 2006.[12] As the legend goes, the club moved from nearby Muntz Street into its current location at St Andrew's, building the stadium on land that was being used by the Romani people. After they were forced to move, the angry Romani people put an 100-year hex on the stadium. This curse is similar to one placed on Derby County.[citation needed]
Throughout the years many Birmingham City managers would try to remove the curse but with little success. Former manager Ron Saunders tried to banish the curse in the 1980s by placing crucifixes on floodlights and painting the bottom of his players' boots red. Another manager, Barry Fry, in charge from 1993 to 1996, urinated in all four corners of the pitch after a clairvoyant said it would break the spell. On Boxing Day 2006 the curse was finally lifted and on that day Birmingham City celebrated a 2–1 win over Queens Park Rangers F.C..
Derby County F.C.[edit]
English football side Derby County were placed under a curse by a group of Romani Gypsies who were forced to move from a camp so that they could build their stadium, the Baseball Ground. The curse was that Derby County would never win the FA Cup.[13] This mirrors the curse placed on Birmingham City F.C..
Despite reaching six FA Cup semi finals between 1896 and 1903, including three finals, they never managed to win the trophy. The next time they reached the final was in 1946 against Charlton Athletic. In the buildup to the final, a representative from the club went to meet with Gypsies in an attempt to lift the curse.[13] During the match, with the score tied at 1-1, the ball burst. It has since been seen by fans of the club as the moment the curse was lifted.[13] Derby County went on to win the match 4-1.
Baltimore Orioles[edit]
|This section relies largely or entirely upon a single source. (May 2013)
This curse, originally coined in the book The Worst of Sports, is the supposed explanation of the Baltimore Orioles not making it to or winning a World Series since 1983. In Game 1 of the 1996 American League Championship Series, Derek Jeter of the New York Yankees hit a fly ball to right field. Jeffrey Maier, a 12-year-old fan from Old Tappan, New Jersey, reached over the fence to retrieve the ball, and, instead of ruling it as fan interference, umpire Rich Garcia ruled it a home run, allowing the Yankees to win the game, the AL pennant, and eventually, the World Series.
Since the home run, the following events attributed to the curse include:
- Rafael Palmeiro and Sammy Sosa testifying to Congress on steroid use in baseball;
- The Orioles' collapse during the 2005 season;[14]
- The Yankees won the 2012 ALDS against the Orioles three games to two.
Boston Red Sox[edit]
Some allege that there was a curse placed on the Boston Red Sox, who failed to win a World Series after 1918, apparently due to the selling of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees. Before the sale, the Red Sox had won four titles in seven years (1912–1918). After the sale, the Yankees went on to win 26 World Series Championships. The "curse" was broken when, after 86 years, the Red Sox defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 0 in the 2004 World Series (before the Series, the Sox had come back from a 3-games-to-0 deficit, a first in MLB history, to defeat the Yankees at Yankee Stadium for the American League pennant).
Chicago Cubs and White Sox[edit]
Both of Chicago's baseball teams are or were involved in supposed curses. The Chicago Cubs, after benefiting from a baserunning error by New York Giants' Fred Merkle during the last couple of weeks in the season, won the 1908 World Series. Since then, the Cubs have not won a World Series despite participating as the National League champion seven times between 1910 and 1945. The 1945 World Series appearance was most notable because it marked the start of the Billy Goat curse. That incident involved Billy Sianis, owner of the Billy Goat Tavern, who was asked to leave a World Series game vs. the Detroit Tigers because his pet goat's odor bothered other fans. The closest the Cubs would get to the World Series, since then, was five outs away in the 2003 NLCS when Steve Bartman made his foul ball catch attempt.
As for the Chicago White Sox, gambling became a sin in Major League Baseball because the 1919 World Series was rumored to be fixed. As a result, the Cincinnati Reds won that series in eight games, and eight Sox players were banned by baseball for their actions in that series. The White Sox wouldn't win another World Series until the 2005 season when they swept the Houston Astros.
Hanshin Tigers[edit]
This curse was supposedly cast on the Hanshin Tigers by Colonel Harland Sanders (the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken) after fans of said team threw his statue into a canal while celebrating the Tigers' 1985 Japan Championship Series.
San Francisco Giants[edit]
The Curse of Coogan's Bluff is an alleged hex placed on the San Francisco Giants following their move from New York City and refers to Coogan's Bluff, a cliff that overlooked Polo Grounds, the Giants' home in New York.[15] In 192, the Giants honored Eddie Grant, the first Major League Baseball player killed in World War I, with a plaque in centerfield,[16] but the plaque was lost during the field invasion by fans that followed the Giants' final game at Polo Grounds at the end of the 1957 season.[17]
Since then, the Giants, who had won five World Series titles with the Eddie Grant plaque in centerfield, lost in their next three World Series appearances, including the '89 Series that was delayed because of massive earthquake.[15]
The Giants were approached on multiple occasions with offers to replace the plaque, but the management refused, citing a preference to keep the team's New York history separate. But the team relented, installing a replica of the original plaque in AT&T Park on Memorial Day, 2006. A club official at the time said, "Baseball fans are so superstitious, and players are too, so you have to take this stuff seriously. And if by putting up a plaque we can break some sort of curse, who's to say it's not the right thing to do?"[17]
The Giants won their first World Series in San Francisco in 2010.[15]
Gaelic football[edit]
Mayo GAA[edit]
The Curse of '51 allegedly prevents Mayo from winning the Sam Maguire Cup ever again, or at least until the death has occurred of every member of the last winning team from 1951. It remains unbroken—despite the team reaching the Final on seven[18] occasions since then, they have either completely collapsed on the day or been undone by a series of other unfortunate events.[19]
In 1989, Mayo reached their first All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final since their last victory in 1951 only to lose to Cork. In 1996, a freak point by Meath at the end of the final forced a replay, which saw Mayo concede another late score that would deny them victory. Kerry bridged an 11-year title gap against them in 1997 with a three-point win, before torturing them by eight points in 2004 and thirteen points in 2006.[20]
Mayo returned to the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship Final in 2012. Even with Prime Minister Enda Kenny in Rome seeking divine intervention through Pope Benedict XVI the day before,[21] the "Kafkaesque black farce"[20] continued from where it had left off—with Donegal allowed bridge a 20-year gap between titles, helped in no small part by a nightmare opening quarter for Mayo as Michael Murphy—whose father is from Mayo—launched a rocket of a shot into the goal after three minutes. Then, in the eleventh minute, Colm McFadden seized the ball from the grasp of Kevin Keane and slid it into the net for a second Donegal goal. Mayo managed thirteen points to Donegal's two goals and eleven, only got on the scoresheet after sixteen minutes when already two goals behind and never led during the match.[20][22][23]
They lost again in 2013, this time by a single point to Dublin.[18]
Biddy Early[edit]
Biddy Early was a 19th-century healer from Feakle in County Clare remembered as a witch. Her curse or prophecy was said variously to afflict two hurling teams which endured long droughts in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship: Clare[24][25][26] (1914–1995) and/or Galway[27][28][29][30] (1923–1980). The two counties played a famous semi-final in the 1932 Championship:[30] Clare won, but lost the final to Kilkenny.[29] After Clare's "curse" was broken in 1995, Billy Loughnane from Ennis wrote to The Irish Times:[31]
Biddy Early is fondly remembered in Co Clare as an extraordinary woman who devoted her time to comforting and healing the sick. She is not known ever to have cursed anyone. She experienced some difficulty with one local clergyman of the day who, for reasons of his own, would have her labelled a "witch". This clergyman's malicious intentions have been greatly assisted recently by those journalists and commentators (outside of Clare) who have been busily referring to the "Curse of Biddy Early". Who started this silly rubbish? ... Some of these people would try to tell us that Biddy decreed that Clare would win no All-Ireland until after all the 1914 team had passed away. Biddy Early died in 1875 before the foundation of the GAA and long before there was any inter-county competition!
Ice hockey[edit]
Chicago Blackhawks[edit]
A curse allegedly placed on the Chicago Blackhawks in 1927 by head coach Pete Muldoon when he was fired, stating that they would never again finish in first place. The "curse" was first mentioned in print in 1943 by Toronto sportswriter Jim Coleman. They would not finish in first place in their division (1928–1937) or in the single-division NHL (after 1938) until 1967, the final season of the Original Six era, despite winning the Stanley Cup three times since Muldoon supposedly "cursed" the team. However, immediately after this, Coleman admitted that he had completely fabricated the "curse" to break a writer's block.
New York Rangers[edit]
The Curse of 1940 was a mythical explanation for the failure of the NHL's New York Rangers to win the Stanley Cup since 1940. It was broken when the Rangers defeated the Vancouver Canucks 4–3 in 1994.
Toronto Maple Leafs[edit]
NHL player Bill Barilko, of the Toronto Maple Leafs, had just scored the Stanley Cup winning goal in the 1951 season in overtime against the Montreal Canadiens.[32] In his off-season, he went on a fishing trip with his dentist. Their plane crashed, both passengers died. The Maple Leafs did not win another cup until 1962, 11 years after the crash, and the same year that Barilko's body was found.[33] His number was retired by the Maple Leafs in honour of his legacy and remembrance after his death.
Motor sports[edit]
Andretti family[edit]
Since winning the Indianapolis 500 in 1969, auto racing legend Mario Andretti was plagued with unexplainable bad luck in his efforts to win the great race for a second time before his retirement in 1994. The misfortune at Indianapolis has notably extended to his sons Michael and Jeff, nephew John, as well as grandson Marco. It is also said to have affected, to an indirect extent, his twin brother Aldo, former car owners Paul Newman, Carl Haas, and Newman's successor Mike Lanigan at Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing.
Twice, when Michael Andretti's team won the Indianapolis 500, the driver subsequently defected to rival Chip Ganassi Racing the following year: Dan Wheldon (2005) and Dario Franchitti (2007).
Ryan Hunter-Reay won the 2014 Indianapolis 500 for Andretti Autosport.
Talladega Speedway[edit]
NASCAR racetrack Talladega Superspeedway has been said to have been cursed by a Native American shaman; other stories claim that it was built on an Indian burial ground. The curse allegedly explains the high number of unusual occurrences, untimely deaths, and spectacular accidents that have plagued the track since its opening in 1969.
Other sports[edit]
AFL Haw[edit]
This is the name given to AFL club Hawthorn's 11 match losing streak against rivals Geelong, from the 2008 AFL Grand Final to the 2013 preliminary final. After the Hawks won the 2008 premiership, then-Hawthorn President Jeff Kennett proclaimed that Geelong "lacked the mentality to defeat Hawthorn in big games". From that time, however, Geelong defeated Hawthorn eleven times in a row, most games being decided by 10 points or less.[34][35] The winning streak was also attributed to comments made by Paul Chapman that the Cats will "never lose to them again" following the 2008 Grand Final.[36] Chapman missed Hawthorn's curse-breaking win in 2013 due to suspension.
Canadian curling[edit]
In the 1972 Air Canada Silver Broom curling tournament, Robert LaBonte, the skip of American team, accidentally kicked the stone belonging to the Canadian team at the end of the match. This put the match into an extra end, and Canada won one more point to win the championship. Canada did not win another World Championship until 1980, and this was said that LaBonte put a "curse" on Canada.
Kevin Durant[edit]
In May 2011, Oklahoma City Thunder small forward Kevin Durant tweeted an insult directed at cult rapper Lil B in which Durant expressed incredulity at the idea that Lil B had become "relevant". In response, Lil B tweeted out the BasedGod's Curse, claiming that Durant would never win the NBA championship. The two men have exchanged further insults and basketball-related challenges on Twitter. In June 2012, Lil B claimed on Twitter that he had lifted the curse; however, in February 2014, during the NBA All-Star Game in which Durant was playing, Lil B resumed insulting Durant on Twitter, implying that the curse had returned. Lil B later released a diss song directed at Durant entitled "Fuck KD".[37]
lawarra Dragons[edit]
In the National Rugby League (NRL), the Canberra curse referred to the St. George Illawarra Dragons' constant inability to defeat the Canberra Raiders at their home ground, or anywhere else, between 2000 and 2014. The Raiders enjoyed an unusual dominance of the Dragons, winning matches between the pair on a regular basis regardless of which team enjoyed favouritism or home ground advantage.[38] This curse came to an end in Round 23, 2014, with the Dragons winning 34–16; it was their first win over the Raiders in Canberra since 2000, overall since 2007, but just their second since 2001.[39][40]
Masters Tournament[edit]
The Masters Tournament held annually at the Augusta National Golf Club begins with an informal par 3 competition. No winner of this has ever gone on to win the main tournament the same year.[41]
World Snooker Championship[edit]
In snooker, the "Crucible Curse" refers to the fact that no first-time winner of the World Snooker Championship has successfully defended his title since the event was first held at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield in 1977. Of the 15 first-time champions in this era, only two have even made the final the following year, and five were eliminated in their first match. The "curse" can even be seen in the pre-Crucible era—the three first-time champions between the start of the championship's "modern era" in 1969 and its move to the Crucible all lost in their respective semifinal matches the next year.
Multiple sports[edit]
Buffalo, New York[edit]
The Buffalo curse is an explanation for Buffalo's inability to win a Super Bowl, Stanley Cup, or an NBA championship, from 1970-1978, when the Buffalo Braves NBA team played in Buffalo.[42] Those who believe in the Buffalo curse[43] cite as examples the four consecutive Super Bowl losses by the Buffalo Bills from 1990–1993 (and their failure even to reach the playoffs since 1999), as well as the failure of the Buffalo Sabres ever to win the Stanley Cup (despite winning the Presidents' Trophy for most regular-season points in 2006–07). The Bills, however, won two American Football League titles (1964 and 1965), the latter occurring just months before an agreement was reached to merge the AFL and the NFL (Bills owner Ralph Wilson initiated the talks to merge the two leagues, according to the Pro Football Hall of Fame). In spite of that, it has been argued that this was achieved when the AFL was in its infancy as an upstart league, garnering little, if any, national attention before merging with the established NFL, and that even if they are considered to be at par, since there would be no Super Bowl until after the 1966 season, the Bills could be no greater than co-champions.[43] There have been conflicting suggestions on how the Bills would have fared against the Green Bay Packers or Cleveland Browns, much as there have been disputes over how well the San Diego Chargers would have played against the Bears in 1963, had the Super Bowl existed at that time.[44]
The earliest reference to the curse traces to 1921, when the city's first NFL team, the Buffalo All-Americans, lost the NFL championship that year to what is now the Chicago Bears on a controversial tiebreaker.[45]
Cleveland, Ohio[edit]
Cleveland is particularly known for not winning a championship in any major sport since 1964, and although the Cleveland Browns won the 1964 NFL Championship Game, the match occurred two seasons prior to the first Super Bowl and six before the AFL–NFL merger. Fifty years after winning their last league title, the Browns remain one of only four teams yet to play in the NFL title game during the modern era. More recently, the Cleveland Indians lost both the 1995 and 1997 World Series, and the Cleveland Cavaliers were swept in the 2007 NBA Finals. In 2004, ESPN.com ranked Cleveland "the most tortured sports city in America". Cleveland Scene has dubbed the city's ongoing struggles "The Curse of Chief Wahoo", a reference to the continued use of the controversial logo.[46][47]
Marketing experts have highlighted the "curse of Gillette", given the mishaps that happen to sports stars which are associated with the brand, most notably Tiger Woods, Thierry Henry and David Beckham.[48][49]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[edit]
The "Curse of Billy Penn"[50] was cited as a reason for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania sports teams' failure to win championships since the Philadelphia 76ers swept the Los Angeles Lakers in the 1983 NBA Finals. Some[weasel words] fans believe that the city's breaking a gentlemen's agreement in 1987 that no skyscraper could be higher than the statue of William Penn on the top of the spire of City Hall put a curse on the city.
When the final beam in the construction of the Comcast Center (Philadelphia's tallest structure to date) was raised on June 18, 2007, iron workers of Local Union 401 attached a small figurine of William Penn to the beam in an attempt to break the curse. The following year, the Philadelphia Phillies won the 2008 World Series.
The city's sports teams have also lost in championship finals in years of presidential inaugurations, beginning with the 76ers' loss in the 1977 NBA Finals and includes the Phillies' loss in the 2009 World Series.[12] During that span, each of the four city's teams have lost championships during such years twice.[12]
San Diego, California[edit]
The city of San Diego, California, USA, has never claimed a modern North American major league professional sports championship (Super Bowl, World Series, Stanley Cup, or NBA Finals).[51] San Diego is currently home to the National Football League's San Diego Chargers and Major League Baseball's San Diego Padres. San Diego has never had a National Hockey League franchise. The city has previously hosted two teams from the National Basketball Association: the San Diego Rockets from 1967 to 1971 (now located in Houston, Texas), and the San Diego Clippers from 1978 to 1984 (now located in Los Angeles, California).
San Diego also has the largest championship drought in the nation with at least two major-league sports franchises[52] as well as the second largest drought for a city with at least one major league franchise (only Ottawa, whose last championship was in 1927 is longer) with their only championship claimed was the 1963 AFL Championship, when the Chargers beat the Boston Patriots 51-10 and emerged as league champions, before the AFL merged with the NFL to form the current National Football League.
The Chargers would only appear and lose in three championship games since then. The Chargers were set to defend their 1963 AFL title in 1964 against the Buffalo Bills. However, a key play by Mike Stratton on Keith Lincoln would help the Bills win, 20-7. The next year, the Chargers would play the Bills again in the Championship Game, but were shut out 23-0. The quarterback for the Bills (and the game MVP) in both of those games was former Charger Jack Kemp (and incidentally, those two championships would also be Buffalo's last). In 1966, team owner and founder Barron Hilton was forced to sell off the team to appease the board of directors of Hilton Hotels. Since Hilton sold the team, the Chargers have only posted one Super Bowl appearance in 1994, when they lost 49–26 to the San Francisco 49ers, as San Francisco quarterback and eventual MVP Steve Young threw for a Super Bowl record six touchdowns. Additionally eight members of that 1994 Chargers team, including team captain Junior Seau, later died before the age of 45.[53]
Founded in 1969, the Padres are one of eight Major League Baseball franchises that have never won the World Series.[54] Of those teams, only the Texas Rangers (1961) and Houston Astros (1962) have been in existence longer than San Diego.[55] The Padres have twice advanced to the World Series, losing 4–1 to the Detroit Tigers in 1984[56] and being swept 4–0 by the New York Yankees in 1998.[57]
Sports Illustrated cover[edit]
Players who appear on the cover of the Sports Illustrated magazine have tended to coincidentally suffer setbacks or injuries, or lose important games, shortly after appearing on the cover.
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The fire of the gypsy's curse is ablaze with
A heroic dueling troubadour
A fatal love triangle
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Friday, April 24, 2015 at 8:00pm
Sunday, April 26, 2015 at 2:30pm
at The Magnificent Tennessee Theatre
Opera preview hosted by Maestro Salesky begins 45 minutes prior to each performance
The Inquisition and civil war rage through 15th century Spain. A rivalry between brothers unknowingly separated at birth, a crazed gypsy woman, and a tyrannical count doom the love of a noblewoman for her ardent balladeer. Roman censors halted the 1853 premiere of this rousing opera about lust, madness, and murder!
A powerhouse cast delivers Verdi's thrilling score, led by Rochelle Bard who dazzled Knoxville audiences last season as Norma, and Nelson Martinez, who gave a brilliant, heartbreaking performance as Knoxville Opera's Rigoletto.
Performed in Italian with projected English translations
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Recent credits for Ms. Stickann include Madama Butterfly for Opera Colorado, Don Giovanni and Sister Carrie for the Brevard Music Center, Don Quichotte for San Diego Opera, and La clemenza di Tito at Opera in the Heights. Her frequent collaboration with Leonard Foglia also put her at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC last January to remount their production of Jake Heggie's Moby-Dick for the 6th time. Coming up, Ms. Stickann will direct Macbeth for Kentucky Opera, L'enfant et les sortilèges for Emerald City Opera, and will join Mr. Foglia once again for both the world premiere of Jennifer Higdon's Cold Mountain at the Santa Fe Opera, and their 7th Moby-Dick at Los Angeles Opera. Other credits include Don Giovanni for the Janiec Opera Company, Flight for Opera Fayetteville, Rigoletto for Opera Memphis, The Tales of Hoffman and Manon for Knoxville Opera, Don Pasquale for Opera in the Heights, La tragédie de Carmen for the Janiec Opera Company, Madama Butterfly for Opera Santa Barbara, and directing and choreographing The Pearl Fishers for the Sarasota Opera.
Meet the Cast!
ROCHELLE BARD (Leonora)
Website: www.rochellebard.com
Birthplace: Worcester, Massachusetts
Foreign Opera Company: Opera Lirica (Orvieto)
Foreign Festival: Seoul International Music Festival
U.S. Opera Companies: Opera Tampa, Boston Lyric Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Baltimore Opera, Sacramento Opera, Shreveport Opera, West Bay Opera, Opera San José, Opera Idaho, Ash Lawn Opera, Opera Providence, Maine Grand Opera, Opera Company of Middlebury, Cape Cod Opera, St. Petersburg Opera, New England Light Opera
U.S. Orchestras and Festivals: Opera Orchestra of New York, Tanglewood Festival, Hartford Symphony, Santa Cruz Symphony, Wilmington Symphony, Cambridge Symphony, Sugar Creek Symphony, Pioneer Valley Symphony, Music by the Lake Festival
JONATHAN BURTON (Manrico)
Website: www.jburtontenor.com
Birthplace: Portsmouth, Ohio
Foreign Opera Company: Royal Opera Muscat (Oman)
Foreign Orchestras: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Teatro la Fenice (Venice), Sinfonica de Galicia (Spain), Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra
U.S. Opera Companies: Sarasota Opera, Kentucky Opera, Florida Grand Opera, Tulsa Opera, Utah Opera, Utah Festival Opera, Shreveport Opera, Palm Beach Opera, Phoenix Opera, Opera New Jersey, Dayton Opera, Opera Omaha, Annapolis Opera, Central City Opera, Lyric Opera Virginia, Opera Naples, Opera on the James, Southern Ohio Light Opera
U.S. Orchestras and Festivals: Kentucky Symphony, Springfield Symphony, Lexington Symphony, Southern Ohio Symphony, Castleton Festival
NELSON MARTINEZ (Il Conte di Luna)
Website: www.miaartists.com
Birthplace: Holguín, Cuba
Foreign Opera Companies: Greek National Opera, Opéra de Massy (Paris), Teatro Sao Paulo, Teatro Lirico Nacional (Cuba), Teatro Lirico Holguín (Cuba)
Foreign Orchestras and Festivals: Cuban National Symphony, Youth Spring Festival of Pyong Yang (Korea)
U.S. Opera Companies: Florida Grand Opera, Knoxville Opera, Opera Company of North Carolina, Winter Opera St. Louis, Metro Lyric Opera (NJ), Baltimore Lyric Opera, Miami Lyric Opera, Sociedad Pro Arte Grateli (Miami), Teatro Grattacielo (NYC)
U.S. Orchestra: Orlando Philharmonic
DANA BETH MILLER (Azucena)
Website: www.danabethmiller.com
Birthplace: Dallas, Texas
Foreign Opera Companies: Deutsche Oper Berlin, Badishe Staatstheater Karlsruhe, Edmonton Opera, Opéra de Montreal
Foreign Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic
U.S. Opera Companies: Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, Seattle Opera, Dallas Opera, Cincinnati Opera, New York City Opera, Arizona Opera, Opera Colorado, Florida Grand Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Tulsa Opera, San Antonio Opera, Des Moines Metro Opera, Pensacola Opera, Sacramento Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Utah Opera
U.S. Orchestras and Festivals: American Symphony (NYC), San Antonio Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Sacramento Philharmonic, Tulsa Symphony, Austin Symphony, Princeton Festival
PATRICK BLACKWELL (Ferrando)
Website: www.robertgilder.co/patrick-blackwell-2
Foreign Opera Company: Porgy & Bess European Tour
Foreign Orchestra: Munich Philharmonic
U.S. Opera Companies: Lyric Opera of Chicago, New York City Opera, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, New Orleans Opera, Ft. Worth Opera, Fresno Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Utah Opera, New Jersey State Opera, Florentine Opera (Milwaukee), Des Moines Opera, Toledo Opera, Augusta Opera, Opera Illinois, Chamber Opera Chicago, Ars Viva of Chicago, Union Avenue Opera (St. Louis)
U.S. Orchestras and Festivals: Boston Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Fresno Symphony, Castleton Festival
Part I:
The Duel
Spain is torn apart by Civil War. The commander of the Royalist Aragon troops, Count di Luna, is obsessed with Leonora, a young noblewoman in the queen's service, who does not return his love. Outside the royal residence his soldiers keep watch at night. An unknown troubadour has been heard serenading Leonora and the jealous count is determined to capture and punish him. To keep his troops awake, the captain, Ferrando, recounts the terrible story of a gypsy woman who was burned at the stake years ago for bewitching the count's infant brother ("Abbietta zingara"). The gypsy's daughter then took revenge by kidnapping the boy and—so the story goes—throwing him into the flames where her mother had died. The charred skeleton of a baby was discovered there and di Luna's father died of grief soon after. No trace was ever found of the daughter, but di Luna, always hoping that the remains might not have been his brother's, has sworn to find her.
In the palace gardens Leonora confesses to her companion Inez that she is in love with a mysterious man she met before the outbreak of war. It is he who now returns as the troubadour to serenade her each night ("Tacea la notte placida"). After they have gone indoors, Count di Luna appears in the garden, driven nearly insane with desire for Leonora. As he approaches her door, the troubadour's song is heard in the darkness. Leonora rushes out to greet him but is seized instead by di Luna. The troubadour appears and reveals his true identity; he is Manrico, leader of the partisan rebel forces. Furious, the count challenges him to fight to the death.
Part II:
The Gypsy
The duel has been fought, with Manrico overpowering the count. But, strangely, some instinct stopped him from striking the blow that would have killed his rival, and he let the count live. The war has raged on with the Royalist forces victorious in the last battle. Manrico has been badly wounded but his mother, the gypsy Azucena, has dragged him from the battlefield to a camp in the mountains and nursed him back to health.
Azucena is the woman di Luna has been looking for. Her life is scarred by the memory of her mother's death and the terrible revenge she exacted ("Stride la vampa"). Manrico is determined to hear the whole truth and once the camp has moved on, she begins to tell him a horrific story. She stole the count's infant son but the child she murdered was in fact her own ("Condotta ell'era in ceppi"). When Manrico demands to know who he truly is, Azucena is evasive; all that matters is the maternal love she has shown him all his life and that he does not fail in his oath to take revenge on the house of di Luna. A messenger arrives with news of Leonora. Believing Manrico has died in battle, and to escape the grasp of di Luna, she is entering a convent. Azucena pleads with Manrico to stay, but he resolves to go to her immediately. Azucena sets off on a journey of her own.
Di Luna plans to storm the walls of the convent with his troops and take Leonora by force ("Il balen del suo sorriso"). As Leonora prepares to take her vows, he tries to seize her, but is prevented by the attack of Manrico and his men. In the ensuing fight and confusion, the lovers escape (Finale: "E deggio e posso crederlo").
Part III:
The Gypsy's Son
Di Luna and his army are attacking the fortress where Manrico has taken refuge with Leonora. Ferrando drags in Azucena, who has been captured wandering near the camp. When she hears di Luna's name, Azucena's reactions arouse suspicion and Ferrando recognizes her as the murderer of the count's brother. Azucena cries out to her son Manrico to rescue her and the count realizes that he has the means to flush his enemy out of the fortress. He orders his men to build a pyre and burn Azucena before the walls.
Inside the castle, Manrico and Leonora are preparing to be married. She is frightened; the battle with di Luna is imminent and Manrico's forces are outnumbered. He assures her of his love, even in the face of death ("Ah sì, ben mio"). When news of Azucena's capture reaches him, he summons his men and desperately prepares to attack ("Di quella pira").
Part IV:
The Execution
Manrico's army has been defeated and he and Azucena are being held captive in di Luna's castle. Leonora has escaped with Ruiz, Manrico's lieutenant, and comes to the prison. She knows that he is condemned to death and prays for his salvation ("D'amor sull'ali rosee"). The troubador's voice is heard from inside the castle. When di Luna appears and orders the execution of both Manrico and Azucena at sunrise, Leonora offers herself to the count in return for her lover's life, but secretly takes a slow poison to cheat di Luna of his prize.
Inside the prison, Manrico tries to comfort Azucena, who is terrified by visions of the stake and the fire that await her. He lulls her with memories of their former freedom and happiness (Duet: "Ai nostri monti"). Leonora rushes in to tell Manrico that he is saved, urging him to escape. He understands what she has done and furiously denounces her, refusing di Luna's mercy. But the poison is already taking effect. Leonora dies in his arms. Di Luna enters the cell in time to witness her death. He sends Manrico to his execution. Azucena cries out that her mother is avenged: di Luna has killed his own brother.