Word: giorno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sirola won only nine games-the worst Challenge Round showing since 1919, when Britain's doubles players dropped all but two games to Norman Brookes and Gerald Patterson of a combined Australia-New Zealand team. "A pathetic display," snapped the Sydney Morning Herald, and Milan's II Giorno agreed: "They played like trained seals." Italy's coach, Czech Jaroslav Drobny, was so disgusted by his team's showing ("They treated the Davis Cup like a garden party") that he planned to resign...
...breaking efforts that helped determine the shape of opera to come. Last week the first, and one of the best, of Cesti's works, his three-act Orontea, was back in Milan after an absence of 300 years. It still looked fresh enough, enthused Milan's Il Giorno, "to teach today's composers how an opera should be written...
...Nabucco failed at its premiere at La Scala in 1842, chances are that Verdi's career would have failed with it. His first opera, Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio, had been only a mild success, and the second, Un Giorno di Regno, had been hissed offstage by the opening-night audience. A year before he started work on Nabucco, Verdi had seen his two children and his wife die within 21 months of one another. Insisting that he would never write another opera, Verdi was drawn to Nabucco in spite of himself. After he reluctantly agreed to read...
...young field hand named Salvatore Funari would pass by her family farmhouse in the sun-baked Sicilian town of Scordia. At first he only glanced up at her window, and then, whistling gaily, went on. But soon he began to wave, and one morning he boldly cried "Buon giorno!" In time Nina found the courage to say "Buon giorno" too, and occasionally she and Salvatore would even hold a brief conversation. After two years of this, Nina began wearing her long hair tied severely back in the manner of the married women of the town. She and Salvatore, she decided...