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When the workers' riots erupted in Poland, some of the loudest denunciations of the Communist bosses in Warsaw came from party spokesmen in Western Europe-most notably from the Red leaders of Italy's Emilia-Romagna region. Guido Fanti, the Communist president of the region, rose before his 50-member council to deplore "the tragic events of Poland." The Communist mayor of Bologna, Renato Zangheri, expressed "the strongest condemnation of the use of arms" to suppress the revolt...
...great surprise that the Italian Communists should be so quick to criticize the errors of their Polish comrades; they are a rather special breed. Emilia-Romagna is one of 15 Italian regions that last June elected semiautonomous governments under a nationwide decentralization program -and the only one in which the Communists and their allies won a majority. Rather than use their new-found power to try to cast the region along orthodox Marxist lines, the Emilia-Romagna Communists-who have been the dominant political force in the so-called "red belt" of central Italy since World War II-have chosen...
...building their showcase, the Communists skillfully capitalized on the region's natural advantages. Emilia-Romagna has long been Italy's richest agricultural region. For the past 20 years, it has led the nation in industrial growth; thanks to an influx of new plants and fat payrolls, the per capita income in Bologna (more than $1,600 a year) is rising at a rate of better than 9% a year. Businessmen find that it is one place where they can count on local Communist politicians to keep obstreperous left-wing labor unions in line...
...real concern of The Makropoulos Affair is time. Adapted from a play by Czech Dramatist Karel Čapek, it deals with a 342-year-old woman who calls herself Emilia Marty. She has not aged much physically, but she has seen, heard and had just about everything and everybody. Longevity has drained away all feeling and left only a beautiful monster of ice and ennui. "There is no joy in goodness, no joy in evil," she says. "When you know that, your soul dies within you." Nevertheless, she is still human enough to be terrified of death, and the opera...
...work depends upon a great singing actress for its ultimate effect. Emilia Marty should be beautiful, venomous, sinister and finally tragic. Her music is strident and etched in acid but when Marty accepts death, it soars toward the sublime. California-born Soprano Maralin Niska, singing her twelfth role with the New York City Opera, was almost up to her demanding role. Niska's voice is bright and well cultivated rather than monumental, but at her best she left no doubt what Janáček had in mind. She is a superb actress who lacks only a measure...