Word: giovanni
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bright & Bubbling. The festival was not merely a Dutch exposition. Jennie Tourel, perhaps the finest Carmen now singing, gave a performance in the role. The polished Vienna State Opera gave a bright and bubbling performance of Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio, and was scheduled to perform Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, and Der Rosenkavalier before the festival ends next week...
...first noteworthy member of the Torlonia family (which came from France to Italy in the 18th Century) was Giovanni, a rag & bone merchant who became one of Europe's greatest financiers, lent money to kings and even to Napoleon's high-living kin. He bought a couple of ancient dukedoms, but Roman aristocracy-whose thin blue lineage is longer than almost anybody else's-sneered at the upstart. At one of Giovanni's lavish fetes, the French novelist Stendhal overheard a great Roman lady say: "Torlonia should not come to his own balls . . . One sees only...
Hounds to Jeeps. Giovanni passed most of his beautiful things on to his younger son Alessandro, who justified his father's confidence. His most notable undertaking was the conversion into farmland of Lake Fucino-a problem which had been, on the agenda since the reign of the Emperor Claudius I (B.C. 10-A.D. 54). "Either I will dry up Fucino," said Alessandro, "or it will dry me up." After eleven years, Alessandro won; the family still rents out most of Fucino's 35,000 acres to tenants at $40 an acre a year...
...Giovanni" will feature an all-professional cast, many of whom have been recruited from the ranks of Boris Goldovsky's New England Opera Company...
...cast, all of which has appeared in opera, radio, and concert performances, includes: Don Giovanni, Foster; Leporello, Matthew Lockhart; Masetto and II Commendatore, Edmund Hurshell; Don Ottavio, Eugene Cox; Donna Anna, Louise Scarbino; Zerlina, Joan Moynagh; and Donna Elvira, Louise Edson...