Word: claudio
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cocteau, in which a woman kills a sailor, unaware that he is her husband who has returned after 15 years' absence. This week the Guild gives the first professional performance in the U. S. of L'Incoronazione di Poppea, an antique forerunner of modern opera, composed by Claudio Monteverdi and given its debut in Venice in 1642. The work has been reconstructed from its fragmentary original score by Ernst Krenek, best known in the U. S. for his jazz opera Jonny Spielt Anf, and as conductor of the Monteverdi work making his first visit...
...Florentine musician in the court of the Duke of Mantua named Claudio Monteverde produced one of the first real operas. This work, "L'Orfeo", was revolutionary in character for it employed a wide varsity of musical forms as well as utilising what was then an unusually large orchestra. From this opera, two orchestral interludes titled Sinfonie and Ritornelli are to be played by the Symphony, providing an excellent seventeenth century balance for the rest of the program...
Pressed Steel Manufacturer John Woodman Higgins of Worcester, Mass, has one thing in common with Shakespeare's Claudio: each would walk ten miles afoot to see good armor. For John Woodman Higgins, who manufactured tin hats for the A. E. F. during the War, is an enthusiastic collector of ancient armor, has a private museum next to his stamping mill to inspire his workmen. With a lumberman, an elderly metallurgist, a surgeon and a number of museum curators he left Manhattan one evening last week, crossed the Queensborough Bridge to a spick & span brick blacksmith shop in a frowsy...
Better than all the speeches, flag waving and reviews which have marked the eleventh anniversary of Fascism in Italy, the trial of four men in Rome last week showed the world the stability of the Fascist regime. Leonardo Bucciglioni, Renato Cianca, Claudio Cianca and Pasquale Capasso were charged with the most serious crime in the Fascist calendar: plotting against the life of Il Duce, and exploding a terrorist bomb inside St. Peter's. Within the past decade more than one man has been tied to a chair and shot in the back for such an offense...
...prosecutor demand the same penalty, insisting that one of the real instigators of the plot was the anti-Fascist exile Professor Gaetano Salvemini of Harvard. (From his Cambridge sanctuary Professor Salvemini promptly denied complicity.) But black-shirted judges no longer fear for their regime. Conspirator Capasso was acquitted. Claudio Cianca was let off with 18 years in jail. The other two got 30 years. Great tears of thankfulness rolled down their cheeks as the three prisoners were led from their iron cage to begin sentence...