Word: figlia
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...Adolescents is a three-part Franco-Italian film in which puberty proves as difficult for the moviemakers as it is for the girls involved in the film's pallid episodes. In Fiammetta, a Florentine figlia who lives with her widowed mother gazes dreamily at the family's carefully manicured estate, brooding about the disorder within herself. "The warmth in me is so soft that it hurts," she mutters, in a plotless sequence as muzzy as her mood. Marie-France and Veronica tells of two chic Parisiennes, not yet 17, sophisticated but full of curiosity about the homme-dingers...
...production was La Figlia del Diavolo (The Devil's Daughter), an unfamiliar approach to the old story of Salome, in which Composer Virgilio Mortari, 51, lightens Salome's character considerably while blackening still more that of her evil mother Herodias. In the Mortari approach, Herodias is literally the devil incarnate, and the part demands a mezzo-soprano who can sing, act and dance for close to 50 minutes almost without pause, and-not least-look devilishly attractive. Mortari and La Scala thought it over, last November offered the part to Rise...
...audience gave Figlia sufferance while clapping up seven enthusiastic curtain calls for the cast itself. Afterward, exhausted but unfazed by the prospect of mixed reviews, Mezzo Stevens stood up stoutly for the opera. "It has a lot of melody," she said. "I was very excited right from the start. Acting-wise it was wonderful for me. Besides, nobody could compare me with anybody...
...distant Sardinia word reached the Vatican last week that the Car of Thespis was not only performing the works of bald, exotic Gabriele d'Annunzio, anathema to good Catholics, but that the Fascist players had added insult to injury by playing Gabriele d'Annunzio's La Figlia di Jorio (Jorio's Daughter) on the most holy Feast of the Body of Christ, Corpus Christi, a legal holiday in all Latin countries...
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