Word: cossa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week at the New York City Opera, it was Beverly Sills' turn. She had a bad cold. Charles Wilson's conducting only occasionally rose to something that resembled authority. Nothing seemed able to shock Tenor Michele Molese and Baritone Dominic Cossa into dramatic vitality. Nevertheless, under the direction of Tito Capobianca, the whole production drew a mounting, cohesive strength from Sills...
...world events. Leaning toward a group of pushbuttons, he avoided a big red button, pushed a black one. which almost immediately brought an assistant to his side. After a quick, untranslated conversation in Russian, the assistant left, and came back a few minutes later with a biography of Baldassare Cossa, a successful pirate who became Pope John XXIII...
...London three years ago, a drawing that was labeled only "School of Francesco Cossa" brought $23,520. The same year a tiny Bellini showing Christ at the column went for $44,100. Last week at Sotheby's, a delicate little drawing of a wispy young woman by the 15th century Flemish Painter Hugo van der Goes made twice as much news. It was a study the master had made for a painting, possibly of St. Barbara. The painting has been lost; the study survived to fetch...