Word: giovanni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, in Manhattan, was produced, for the first time in the U. S., Giovanni Gallurese, an opera written 20 years ago by Italo Montemezzi, famed composer. The house was packed with operagoers who, having heard from season to season Montemezzi's exquisite L'Amore del Tre Re, were curious to see how so great a composer wrote when he was younger. Among these operagoers sat the composer himself, shyly smiling...
Music. Banal, melodious cantilenas, shreds of the wild echoes Verdi set flying?melody that has been shut up from the air until, to modern taste, it has become stiff, flaky, like stale candy. In the eight years that intervened between Giovanni Gallurese and L'Amore del Tre Re, Montemezzi must have worked hard, critics decided...
Italo Montemezzi, author of "L'Amore Dei Tre Re" is the most famous of living Italian composers and ranks among the greatest of all time. He was born in Verona, Italy, just 50 years ago, and produced his first opera at Turin in 1905, under the title of "Giovanni Gallurese." His second and more famous work, "Hellera," was presented four years later, also at Turin. "L'Amore Dei Tre Re," after a premiere at Milan In 1913 was produced in the United States one year later by the Metropolitan Opera Company, and the Boston and Chicago Opera Companies...
...Premiers Giovanni Giolitti and Vittorio Orlando definitely ranged themselves on the side of the Opposition-that hopelessly torn group whose disgruntled Socialist members (150 of them) have refused to attend the session, as a protest against Fascismo. Ex-Premier Salandra voted for the Government. Many notable speeches were made...
...pagan family, named Laterano. This mansion the Emperor gave to Pope Sylvestre. Within the house a chapel was erected and for 600 years called the "chapel in the Laterano house"; finally, after having been twice burned and rebuilt, it was dedicated to St. John the Baptist and became San Giovanni nel Laterano. It was early regarded as the Pope's own church, and hence as the centre of Roman Christendom. Pope Pius XI will not be able to say mass in his own church on the day of the festival, of course, because he is a prisoner, self-imprisoned...