Word: ermanno
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Live Duck. Pioneering began early. In its second year, the company became one of the first to break the color barrier in opera, starring Negro Baritone Robert Todd Duncan in I Pagliacci. Mixing "ham-and-eggs repertoire"-A'ida, La Boheme, Carmen-with such rarely performed works as Ermanno...
Contemptuous Enclave. The Finzi-Continis are proud, pretentious, cultivated Jews, living in world-weary isolation behind the walls of their vast estate, which survives like a verdant enclave in the provincial city of Ferrara. Father Ermanno is an aging scholar-gentleman who has passed his life in obscure antiquarian studies, and who regards the Fascists with courtly contempt. Mother Olga is an aristocratic wraith who lives only to mourn the death of her six-year-old child. Son Alberto is a languid dilettante. Daughter Micol is a beautiful, spirited intellectual who cannot bring herself to escape the family...
...Rome, and one Italian Protestant attended the Vatican Council sessions as an official observer. Today, Italian Protestants are cautiously hopeful about the Vatican's new interest in friendship with other churches. "We welcome any step toward Christian unity based on the word of God," says the Rev. Ermanno Rostan, moderator of the Waldensian Church. But, he adds, "we are also vigilant...
...matter of taste, of course, but at a very basic level. More than anything else, Ermanno Olmi's direction reminds me of the poetry of John Dryden. I happen to like Dryden. Many do not. Throughout the movie Olmi maintains a perfect balance between the melancholy and the ridiculous. And--what is the crucial point--he makes of his small short story something greater than itself...
...Steiger, 39, has played Al Capone, as well as a thug in On the Waterfront. But a sterling personality belies that base exterior, as Italian Producer Ermanno Olmi knew, and so he cast Steiger as Pope John XXIII, in the Vatican-approved screen version of the late Pope's diary. And There Came a Man, as it will be called, is now being filmed in John's native Sotto il Monte and, says Olmi firmly, "there will be no mixing of the sacred and profane." Says Steiger, who was raised a Lutheran: "I consider this part a regeneration...