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...theme of Girl with a Suitcase is an immensely popular one these days. Lorenzo (Jaques Perrin), a 16-year-old stripling, falls in love with Aida (Miss Cardinale), an older and more sophisticated person altogether, after his brother Marcello (Corrado Pani) betrays her (how he betrays her is a mystery). Lorenzo makes sacrifices for Aida, gives her money which is not his, and fights for her honor against assorted lechers while she looks on and tries to figure out what he is getting so excited about. Occasionally, she can understand what drives the boy, but she is too much...
...Rome, where strip shows are forbidden, natives find the best show is to sit at a sidewalk café on the elegant Via Veneto and sip espresso while Italian beauties sway by. There are other forms of culture too: Carmen, Bohème and Aida, with live camels, horses and elephants, will be given on an outdoor stage in the Baths of Caracalla (July 2-Sept...
...glitter when more opulent warmth was called for. Apparently a more severe critic of herself than some of Manhattan's reviewers, Soprano Nilsson said later: "After the first act I was just physically tired, and my throat was dry. The first act is as hard as all of Aida...
Married. Gloria Davy, 28, Brooklyn-born Negro soprano who made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Aida; and Herman Penningsfield Jr., 28, Swiss financier; she for the second time, he for the first; in Bridgeport, Conn...
...would gladly have substituted Tosca for Traviata, said Callas (Bing denied it), or sung three straight Macbeths: "But he offered me Lucia as a substitute which is even more ridiculous than Traviata. A few weeks ago it was reported to me that Mario Del Monaco had canceled Aida, and they gave him another opera. So why pick on me? Is it because I am an American? The others are all foreigners." Said Bing: Tebaldi had canceled Traviata only after she agreed to accept a substitute role, and Del Monaco's cancellation in Aida had been arranged in ample time...