Word: di
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...Seattle Opera, for example, is in the seventh summer of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelung, in both English and German cycles. The San Diego Opera stages a Verdi festival, producing the relatively obscure works-this year Un Giorno di Regno-along with the more familiar ones. Usually defined as companies other than the so-called Big Five-New York's Metropolitan, the San Francisco Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera and the New York City Opera-the regional groups are distinguished by their employment of American artists and even American composers. Last season the more...
While the unusual operas bring in the out-of-town press, boosting a company's prestige, it is still the chestnuts that pay the bills. Says Michigan Opera Theater's David Di Chiera: "There must be a delicate balance between what the community wants and what will get national attention." The Dallas Opera's Plato Karayanis said his company lost 5% of its subscribers after last season's repertory of Turandot, Delibes's Lakme, Vivaldi's Orlando furioso and Britten's Peter Grimes; with a more conventional season coming up, he expects record...
...waxed likenesses of Prince Charles, 32, her husband-to-be, at London's famed Madame Tussaud's. A plaster mold was made of Sculptor Muriel Pearson's feat of clay, from which a wax figure is being shaped; later it will be colored and dressed. The Di will be cast shortly before the royal wedding on July...
...before a full theater, he promptly canceled the last half of it; that led to a certain bemusement among those trying to follow the printed program, which remained unchanged on later evenings. Jerome Robbins had some second thoughts too: he decided that his segment of the five-part Tempo di Valse did not fit in with the rest. Out it went, just before the premiere. Since Robbins' work for the festival is his best in years, the decision may merit reconsideration...
...full members. So were such military figures as Admiral Giovanni Torrisi, the Defense Chief of Staff; General Giulio Grassini, chief of the Interior Ministry's secret intelligence service; and General Giuseppe Santovito, head of the Military Information and Security Service. Financiers included a top official of the Banco di Roma, Italy's third largest bank, and a former director-general of the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, the country's largest...