Word: donato
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better setting for the work's small-screen passions. Golovin's best feature: its cast, including Franca Duval, Patricia Neway and the bass-baritone find of the year, 22-year-old Richard Cross, who left college (Iowa's Cornell) only 18 months ago, but sings Donato with power and conviction...
There are a great many melodramatically effective scenes in this tale about a blind young man, Donato, who falls desperately in love with a married woman and becomes entangled in another form of blindness-jealousy. But the impact is marred by banalities of speech ("You know we can't go on like this") and the hero's unsympathetic character. For Donato seems not so much a good man tragically crippled by the loss of sight as a psychopath who happens to be blind...
...villa near a frontier in a European country," Maria Golovin unfolds a romance between Maria, whose husband is a war prisoner abroad, and Donato, a returned soldier blinded in the (undated) war. Donato at first seeks mere companionship with Maria. He sings: "May I touch your face? My touch is as harmless as a glance." But within a month they are lovers. Blinded further by jealousy, Donato visualizes imagined rivals. "When I had my eyes, I could close them and find peace. Now I imagine things. I see things." His love turns into hate, first suicidal, then homicidal...
...juveniles. Photos of Raemisch's models showed a group of round-faced children gathered around a round-faced mother. Objected one member of the commission: the figures look "pie-faced." Agreed Sculptor Giuseppe Donate: the faces of the children look as if they had "retarded minds." Said Donato: "We have a responsibility to the public to see that they get a first-rate piece of art." The commission asked for photographs of full-size models before making its final decision...