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...command of mellifluous and seamless tonal transitions and passages that hovered and drifted weightlessly through her listeners, lingering hauntingly in the air. The latter half of the concert was comprised of eleven pieces by Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) drawn from La fiera di Venezia, Armida, La secchia rapita, La finta scema, La scuola de’ gelosi, Palmira, Regina di Persia, and La cifra...
Borrowed from a Lombard farm by an Italian artist named Antonio Paradiso, the beast, a massive bull named Pinco, stood ruminating in a corral in front of the Italian pavilion. The other half of Paradiso's artwork was a mucca finta, a fake cow, a four-wheeled chassis draped in a cowskin. It was to be wheeled into the pen, the deceived bull would mount it, and the results-as the Biennale catalogue noted, with the usual clarity of Italian art criticism-would touch "the central core of the present evolutionary-involutionary crisis." Finding the proposed event "degrading" (degrading...
...Librettist Calzabigi, he has provided a text for a youth who once was one of Austria's most promising child prodigies, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Their work, La Finta Giardiniera, was staged in Munich last year, and Mozart hopes to find sponsors for further productions. Mozart has been performing publicly on the harpsichord and violin since the age of six, but his remarkable gift seems to be turning mainly toward composition. Still only 20, he has already written ten Masses for his employer, the Archbishop of Salzburg, as well as a prodigious total of seven other operas, 18 violin sonatas...
...work is The Clever Flirt (La Finta Semplice), K. 51. Mozart's first opera buffa and his first full-length opera. The impresario is Baird Hasting '39, who has made the English translation and will conduct the Mozart Festival Orchestra...
...Mozartians, Epic offers a series of highlights from La Finta Giardiniera (mono), written when Mozart...