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Despite a few inconveniences, American retirees find a sunny paradise in Mexico. -- This summer' s fizziest cocktail? The Bellini...
Ernest Hemingway ordered doubles at Harry's Bar on hot Venetian mornings. Noel Coward savored them too. The Bellini, for 40 years a Harry's signature, is a romantic sort of drink -- fizzy on the tongue, dizzy on the mind and wonderfully pretty in pink. Now it has crossed the Atlantic triumphantly, as Cipriani has opened two dolce vita restaurants in New York...
...perfect summer drink," says a Manhattan convert. The concoction -- one part fresh peach juice, two parts champagne -- is Cipriani pride: Giuseppe, Harry's father and founder of the Venetian bar, invented it. But now it is putting down U.S. roots. BELLINI AND BRUNCH signs sprout each weekend at see-and-be-seen spots around the land. And a home mix, stirred up by Champagne Editions, is on the market nationwide. Peachy...
...Vienna State Opera. But what a difference a decade makes: last September, his towering presence energized a Figaro in San Francisco; next season he is tapped for Faust and Figaro in Chicago. Even the Met has come around. This season audiences hailed his performances as Giorgio in Bellini's I Puritani and Escamillo in Carmen; he will sing both the Don and Leporello...
...quirks of 20th century music is that Italian opera should have gone into such decline. Italy, after all, gave birth to bel canto, and is the homeland of Rossini, Bellini and Verdi. Yet the effervescent melodic line that began with Monteverdi during the Renaissance exhausted itself with the death of Giacomo Puccini in 1924, and has been only fitfully revived by such contemporary figures as the late Luigi Dallapiccola. There is, it seems, a lost generation of Italian opera composers. But what happened to them...