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...Author Malaparte overlooks these facts: 1) in 1938, the Enciclopedia Italiana gave a glowing appraisal of his work (including a collection of poems dedicated to Mussolini); 2) in 1944, after Mussolini's fall, he began writing under the name of "Gianni Strozzi" for the Communist daily L'Unit a, the same year applied for, but was refused, Communist Party membership; 3) Italy's Defense Ministry, whose records show that he served as a liaison officer with Allied Headquarters, flatly denies that he had any part in organizing Italy's Army of Liberation...
...role of Wozzeck's faithless mistress Marie, Mitropoulos gave it to Soprano Dorothy Dow, of Galveston, Texas. The part of the plodding, unhappy Wozzeck went to Italian Baritone Tito Gobbi. Milan admired them both. Another successful touch was the scenery; instead of going in strong for realism, Designer Gianni Ratto made his sets shadowy and changeable, to keep the audience under the emotional spell of Berg's music...
...call themselves "spatialists" and "nuclearists" gave their answer with an exhibit "inspired by the atomic bomb." The canvases were almost as explosive as the bomb itself: furious fireballs of bright colors and bold contrasts. Prizewinning explosion: a churning blue and green fantasy by a 27-year-old artist named Gianni Dova. At the top of his painting was a dripping black splash with a fiery red spot. The impression he hopes to give, says Dova, is that the splash is alive, and will "continue to . . . grow until it overwhelms everything...
...Opera Theater (Thurs. n p.m., NBC). Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, with Herbert, Haskins, Marshall...
...singers are all in fine voice-including amateur Baritone Toscanini, whose hoarse old bawling can be clearly heard accompanying the principals in several passages. Recording: excellent. A new recording of Tosco, (Cetra-Soria, 4 sides LP) is not so happy. Soprano Adriana Guerrini is shrill as Tosca, Tenor Gianni Poggi and Baritone Paolo Silveri only passable as Cavaradossi and Scarpia. Recording: good...