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...realistically and the equal sensibility with which he treats a vast landscape and a tiny flower shoot make him the ultimate Ruskinian. Aside from “Peacock Feather,” his small landscapes—“Venetian Doorway” (1877), “San Barnaba, Venice” (c. 1876-77), and “Winter Landscape, Valley of the Catskill” (1866)—are not to be missed. Each painting alone can be examined for hours, and with approximately 60 works, “The Last Ruskinians?...
...night last October, two gunmen burst into the Isfahan bedroom of Anglican Bishop Hassan Barnaba Dehqani-Tafti and his British-born wife Margaret, spraying them with automatic-pistol fire. Four bullets pierced the pillow near the bishop's head. Amazingly, he was not hit, though his wife received a bullet in the arm. The bishop, president of the Central Synod which includes all Anglicans in the Middle East, fled to exile in Cyprus...
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...
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