Word: gaetano
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other words, exactly what San Franciscans have come to expect of their opera. The company's tradition goes back to a genially schizoid Italian named Gaetano Merola who founded it back in 1923. Merola was schizoid in that, though he favored Italian opera, he would have little to do with Italian musicians. "The Italians never come on time," Merola would grumble. "Give me the Germans. They are prompt, orderly, reliable." One of the most prompt, orderly and reliable "Germans" was Kurt Adler. A Viennese immigrant, Adler reached San Francisco as chorus director in 1943, after five years...
Giant Tensor. There has always been a feedback between the "fine" and the "applied" arts, and some Italian designers approach this in a deliberately eclectic and unsettling way. Thus Claes Oldenburg's funky gigantism is parodied in Gaetano Pesce's "Moloch" floor lamp: a tensor desk light enlarged to a height of 9 ft. And, just as many a Victorian bronze looked better with a lampshade than as sculpture, the use of neon tubing becomes laconically appropriate in Ettore Sottsass's "Asteroid" lamp. What goes on with such designers is not a passive borrowing of fine...
...master stonemasons went to work; it took them 16 years to complete the job. Alongside the Zwinger, Semper's famous Gemaldegalerie (Art Gallery) once again exhibits Raphael's Sistine Madonna, twelve Rembrandts (including his Portrait of Saskia), 1 6 Rubenses, five Titians and two Vermeers. Gaetano Chiaveri's Baroque 18th century Hofkirche (Court Church) is finished and used regularly for Catholic services. The old Landhaus (Statehouse), an imposing mansion reminiscent of Versailles, has been turned into a museum (see color pag?). The exquisite Kronentor (Crown Gate) on the moated Zwinger has been restored to its original splendor...