Word: bruttino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hate Duets. A tiny man (5 ft. 3 in.), grey-maned Composer Dallapiccola is affectionately known in Italian musical circles as "Il Bruttino"-The Ugly One. He now lives in Florence in a musty, 17th century palazzo. There he is hard at work on a gigantic, twelve-tone grand opera to be based on Joyce's Ulysses. The trouble with modern opera, says Dallapiccola, is that composers "seem to have come to a mutual agreement to eliminate the love element which has delighted audiences for a century. The love duet was axed, and it would now be appropriate...
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