a happy couple celebrating half a century of connubial bliss

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Relyea was like an Old Testament prophet in the saturnine power of his recitatives, lightening his deep dark basso timbre for the evocation of Adam and Eve’s connubial bliss in his duets with Sierra in Part 3. John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, "A memorable 'Creation' from James Levine at Ravinia," 9 Aug. 2017

The Maldivians have the highest divorce rate in the world, a fact which to my mind uniquely qualifies them to officiate over the interment by water of the connubial myth. Rachel Cusk, Condé Nast Traveler, "Novelist Rachel Cusk on the Complicated Romance of the Maldives," 2 Feb. 2017

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