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...since the Moscow Congress last fall, have returned to the attack. Charging the Italian Communist leadership with "coresponsibility" for Stalin's crimes, the so-called "renovators"' demand democratization of internal party affairs, greater freedom from Soviet dictation. Leader of the renovators is burly Giorgio Amendola, 54, a skillful organizer who has never visited Russia or its satellites and has no desire to do so because, he says, low living standards "depress me." Adds Amendola: "We must acknowledge the diversity of positions of the U.S.S.R. and China, of Yugoslavia and Cuba, of Italy and France" (whose Communist Party, along...
...government is strongest, North Italy's private industry manages to flourish. Though the state produces 55% of Italy's steel, Milan's Falck Steel succeeds by specializing in high-grade alloys. Periodic talk of nationalization of the electric power industry fails to faze ramrod-backed Giorgio Valeric, 57, managing director of Italy's largest utility, the Edison Group. Snaps Valerio: "We've doubled output in ten years, and we're still going ahead. Politicians are conservatives. We industrialists, we are the revolutionaries...
Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Gianna d'Angelo, Renato Capecchi, Carlo Cava, Nicola Monti, Giorgio Tadeo; the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs). As an effervescent Rosina, Soprano d'Angelo confirms the promise of her recent Metropolitan opera debut, but the honors here belong to Baritone Capecchi, whose Figaro is vibrant-voiced, flamboyant and believable...
COMO PUCCINI: Turandot, Birgit Nilsson, Renata Tejussi Bjoeriling, Giorgio Tozzi Rome Opera House Or and Chorus conducted by Leinsdorf. RCA Victor LM ndot is Puccini's best and yet frustrating opera. "Best," be of the scope of its profound and dramatic characterize "Frustrating," because the touchstone, its final duet, not written by Puccini but one instead by a mediocre of his, Franco Alfano...
...Timur, Giorgio Tozzi brings so much sincerity to the part that I can only regret that he did not perform in the Metropolitan revival which I saw a few weeks ago. In his beautiful scene after the death of Liu, Tozzi evokes Timur's peculiar mixture of frustrated power and deep affection with especial effectiveness. Renata Tebaldi has recorded Liu once before, for a London release, and time seems to have lessened the appropriateness of her great voice for this role. Today, she sounds more like a dramatic Verdian heroine, than a pitiful slavo girl. But her extremely sensitive phrasing...