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...operatic tour d'art that is the best news of the Met's new season. In what Met Manager Rudolf Bing calls "the Schippers festival," the young conductor will lead the orchestra in at least 36 performances of four operas, including the première run of Gian Carlo Menotti's Last Savage. At 24, Schippers was one of the youngest conductors ever to appear at the Met; now, nine years later, he is established as the best conductor of opera yet born in America...
Satan's Payroll. Until she was 22, Sister Virginia's life passed uneventfully in the nunnery. Then she looked out a window and saw Gian Paolo Osio, a handsome young man who lived on a fine estate next to the convent. "After I had seen Osio twice," Sister Virginia said, "it seemed as though I were forced by the Devil to go to that window." She meant it literally. Like everyone else in those days, Sister Virginia believed that Satan and all his devils roamed the world to snare men's souls...
During the evenings at Gian Carlo Menotti's Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, the goings-on were grand. Festive Roman audiences wildly applauded Luchino Visconti's lavish production of La Traviata. The Messiah was sung on the moonlit Piazza del Duomo that it might satisfy all the senses. When the festival's sixth season neared its close, Founder Menotti looked ahead anxiously. "Everyone," he sighed last week, "expects exceptional productions. It's really tough figuring out how I will keep it up during the next ten years...
Harry is the hero of Henry Miller's first and only play, Just Wild About Harry, written in three days in 1960 and given its world premiere last week in Spoleto at Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds. The play is standard, consistent Miller all the way; that is to say, it is a show of dirty drivel...
...second season as director of the Summer School Chorus. Under her direction the Smith College Glee Club has appeared, over the past 15 years, in Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, and Symphony Hall, and has toured England, Mexico and Italy. In Spoleto, Italy, the group was conducted by the composer Gian Carlo Menotti...