Word: corsaro
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Even for Italy, it was an extraordinary display of artistic temperament. The occasion had started as a concert performance of Verdi's // Corsaro in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the composer's birth, and the cognoscenti were all there. The opera had not been performed in 109 years and for excellent reason: troubled by rheumatism and an attack of Weltschmerz brought on by a worrisome winter in Paris, Verdi dashed // Corsaro off in less than two months and immediately pronounced it beyond salvation...
That it all adds up exquisitely to nothing is not the failure but rather the point of the play, which suffers in its London production from the heavy approach of Director Frank Corsaro. who emphasizes the sinister at the expense of the humorously macabre. In her first stage appearance after a dozen years of teaching, Stella Adler didn't seem quite ready for Madame Rosepettle. However, the Times conceded that the play was "hilarious," and the Daily Mail said of Kopit: "He writes like an angel or, to be more precise, like a mischievous cherub who has just...
...role of Renata demonstrated one reason why Flaming Angel (now available in a Westminster recording) is so rarely produced: the heroine, onstage and singing almost constantly, is required to deliver some of her most memorable lines while crawling on the floor or hopping in hysterical convulsions. Said Director Frank Corsaro plaintively about the work: "I want to move it to New York, but nobody wants...
Spilamberto's priest, Don Romeo Spatini, went to court, asking return of the cannon plus damages for the splitting of the breech. He brandished the receipt, but Il Corsaro slyly pointed out that he had not specified when he would return the cannon. He hid the cannon at a dairy farm, and San Cesarians took turns guarding it. They organized an official Committee for the Cannon, to produce evidence for the trial. All San Cesario was together on this: the committee included the Communist Il Corsaro, the priest of the village, and the leader of San Cesario...
Cold War. As the two villages waited for the court's decision, they each poured insulting pity upon the other. "Those poor people, the Spilambertians," said Il Corsaro, "they have the goiter. It's not their fault. It is only the water." Down the road in Spilamberto, the secretary of the village's Demo-Christian Party felt equally sorry for the San Cesarians. "Good folks," he said, "only they have the goiter. Confidentially, they really have got it properly. It is the fault of the water." Said one old Cesarian: "The Spilambertians cannot keep their wives. Three...