Word: arrigo
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...shown scant faith in Britain's leaders and no interest whatsoever in its institutions, but there is broad agreement-or hope-that London might bring a refreshing new cast of mind to the EEC. "We Europeans are insecure about how to live with democratic institutions," says Italian Journalist Arrigo Levi, whose own country has had three governments in the past 18 months. "The British can help us there. They also see things on a grander scale than...
...rein. In those hands even old familiars like Gounod's Faust became provocative productions. In 1968, for instance, Corsaro transformed the simple good-conquers-evil parable of that libretto into a chilling Gothic horror tale of clashing wills between God and the devil. A year later, Capobianco launched Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele a a space-age sonet lumière production in which the devil seemed about to vanquish the music of the spheres until he was whistled down at final curtain. Contemporary operas seldom fare well with the public, but Alberto Ginastera's atonal, astringent Bomarzo...
...Arrigo Boito's Mefistofele may be an exception. Toscanini admired it. Great bassos love to strip to the waist and storm through it. Famous prima donnas long to play at being beautiful and abandoned in it. The Metropolitan Opera has hinted at doing it for decades, but when the New York City Opera presented it last week, it was the first time that New Yorkers were able to see the opera performed with full stage trappings in 43 years...
...Chicago, Columbus Day Parade Chairman Victor Arrigo denounced the Yale map as a "Communist plot." New Jersey's Republican Senator Clifford Case, on hand for Newark's parade curtly dismissed Ericsson as "just an upstart." Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Michael Musmanno, author of The Story of the Italians in America charged that the Yalemen "have gone into the moss-covered kitchen of rumor and, on the broken-down stove of wild speculation, fueled by ethnic prejudices have warmed over the stale cabbage of Leifs discovery of America." In the House, New York Democrat Benjamin Rosenthal introduced a bill...
Gioconda's absurd libretto (by "Tobio Gorria," anagram for Arrigo Boito, Verdi's great librettist) revolves about a love plot of pentagonal complexity; Barnaba is in love with Gioconda, who is in love with Enzo, who is in love with Laura, who is married to Alvise. By the time Gorria-Boito sets things right, four acts and nearly that number of hours have elapsed. But La Gioconda is a singers' opera, and it gives the principals some rousing tunes, including Enzo's great second-act aria, Cielo e mar, superbly rendered last week by Tenor Tucker...