Word: attila
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...relentless campaign to resurrect the least-known works of the best-known composers, some of Verdi's early operas are being given a fresh hearing-with unpredictable results. Gianna d'Arco (1845), performed this month by Manhattan's American Opera Society, was a thundering flop. But Attila (1846), as staged last week by the enterprising opera company of Graz, Austria, proved to be a rough diamond...
...excellent production was something of a United Nations effort, what with an Italian conductor (Bruno Amaducci), an Estonian director (Ulf Thomson), a Greek baritone (Rudolf Constatin), an Australian soprano (Althea Bridges), a Japanese basso (Kunikazu Ohashi) and a Spanish tenor (José Maria Perez). The libretto deals with Attila's siege of Italy in the 5th century and is embellished with the usual subplots of revenge, lust and political hanky-panky. What makes the opera worth the salvaging is the vigor and sheer melodic beauty of the score. Though Verdi the patriot worked at odds with Verdi the composer...
...Attila and his Huns had nothing on the hordes that swept down Brattle Street yesterday. But the Cambridge conquerors weren't out for blood--they were bargain-seekers heading for the opening of the annual three-day sale at Design Research...
...Attila is at the gates," thundered Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini, Archbishop of Palermo. Well, not exactly. Sicily was holding regional elections, and the Communists threatened to repeat the massive gains they had scored in Italy's national elections seven weeks ago. Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti himself was on hand to campaign. Back and forth across the island scurried hundreds of Communist squadristi (shock troops), trying to swing undecided voters...
...rough-and-tumble reconstruction made way for new men and new ideas. Wily Dino de Laurentiis, who has revitalized Italy's film industry by making movies (War and Peace, Attila) with international casts and the specific purpose of tapping international markets, is the son of a small Neapolitan pasta manufacturer. In Britain, neither George Harriman, who as head of British Motor Corp. is the United Kingdom's biggest automaker, nor Financier Charles Clore, who has won fame as London's "Takeover King," can boast the once-traditional public school and university background...