Word: giacomo
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After it was all over, Librettist Giacomo Rossi did not know whether to brag or complain, and so did both. The composer, said Rossi, "scarcely gave me the time to write, and to my great wonder I saw an entire opera put to music by that surprising genius, with the greatest of perfection, in only two weeks." The genius was George Frideric Handel, then 26. The opera was Rinaldo, conceived, composed and staged for London's Haymarket Theater in 1711. Based on an epic about the Crusades by Torquato Tasso, the opera tells the story of the Christian general...
...Shelley, and in this century. Antonin Artaud Beatrice, his daughter, added by her step-mother Lucretia and her remaining brothers, avenged the Counts crimes by hiring two assassins who killed him driving nails through his eye and throat. The plot was soon discovered and Lucretia. Beatrice, and her brother Giacomo were beheaded after Pops Clement VII deed their-piers for pardon...
Seth Riemer misinterprets his part as Giacomo, the family coward the only Cenci who would cringe at the thought of committing a murder. Riemer tries to convey this with an effect accent that seems anachronistic...
...primary function of bullion. The present epidemic of art theft is ultimately their responsibility. In one day last week, in one Italian district-the Abruzzi-thieves made off with a 12th century Madonna and Child, a 13th century reclining Madonna and a 14th century silver reliquary attributed to Giacomo di Sulmona. In the whole week more than 180 works of art were stolen in Italy; an average of 27 a day, one every six hours from churches in Tuscany alone. One may safely bet that by 1980 most of these things-some trivial, some precious in their testimony to lost...
...pontificate began, Pope Paul Vl's "hobby"-as his entourage was calling his collection of contemporary art-was unveiled in 55 rooms of the Vatican Museum, the refurbished Borgia Apartment near the Sistine Chapel. Much of the show consisted of Italian paintings and massive sculptures by Giacomo Manzu and Emilio Greco. But there were also two rooms full of American paintings, one devoted entirely to works by Ben Shahn...