Word: bartolo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major asset of the company has been the scenic inventiveness of the gifted young American designers whom Miss Caldwell has commissioned. One of the handsomest operatic settings I have ever seen was the elegant interior of Bartolo's house that Robert O'Hearn conceived for last spring's Barber. Robert Fletcher's decor for the new Tosca continues this very commendable tradition...
...reminded of Bouree, and Lotta, and Vieri. And of course I must think of Belasz and Tolespa, and dear little Treyispa: and Grondi and Bartolo. God, Felipe," Zendie said, "those afternoons in the piazza, and the evenings on the Bierenspitzenplatz, and the mornings at La Dolope," the girl read, tapping her cigarette drily over the ashtray. The white-caps are like diamonds, the girl enunciated...
...crushing police force (practically on every other block could be seen a pair of gray uniformed policemen with rifles on their shoulders--while on regu- lar duty they only carry revolvers) on the 17th of January members of "Franco's guard," pistol in hand, broke into the home of Bartolo Masolivar, a 4th year law student, forced him into a car, drove him to the country, and after stripping him, beat him and left him unconscious. Joaquin Jorda, 5th year law student, suffered the same fate...
...acted Figaro without straining, and the result was a characterization that helped hold the entire performance together. Robert Cortright looked noble as Count Almaviva, but found the role too high in pitch and too ornate for his basically sympathetic tenor voice. Arthur Anderson also has vocal difficulties as Doctor Bartolo, but he acts the old stodge convincingly. In smaller parts Laurence Chvany and Grace Lewis are excellent, and Noel Tyl adds a marvelous bit as a lout of a servant...
Recognizing the beauty of Assisi's Temple of Minerva, the citizens turned it into a church dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Correggio, commissioned to paint edifying decorations for a convent, included a Punishment of Juno to point up the perils of false pride. Taddeo di Bartolo decorated the chapel in Siena's Public Palace with a procession of Roman virtues-Prudence, Force, Magnanimity, Justice-plus Jupiter in his sun-god aspect, Mars thundering by in a boxlike chariot. Minerva. Apollo, Aristotle, Caesar, and the Roman general Manius Curius Dentatus...