Word: cossotto
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Through all this interference, Mezzo Soprano Fiorenza Cossotto and Bass Lorenzo Alvary-the opera's entire singing cast-struggled to tell Scarlatti's simple allegory of an aging Roman centurion's efforts to win a Catalan coquette long after the decline of the Roman Empire had doomed to failure any such suit. The singers struggled against impossible odds. Three more curtain-size Dali tableaux fell, each full of the usual Dalian symbols: butterflies, breasts, limp watches and legions of crutches...
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