Word: giovanni
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pleasant enough evening, but let's face it--why Don Giovanni, of all operas? Harvard-operatic productions, beset by obvious limitations, suggest several rationales--a training ground for student singers; an opportunity to present neglected works; and, most simply, straight entertainment, inevitably of the comic sort. The Eliot-Leverett collaboration, however, imported all but one of its seven principals from outside Harvard and turned them loose on a masterpiece that is easily maimed in performance and only too notorious for its structural lapses and dramatic incongruities. Far sounder cases can be made for the recent Lowell productions, House Afire...
...station. The management of the station refused to let Epps sing, and Epps quite legitimately cried discrimination. But his musical penchant has had a brighter side also, and Epps is advisor of the Leverett House Opera Society which produced Cosi Fan Tutti last year and is now presenting Don Giovanni...
...Giovanni Forum will be held tonight at 8 p.m. in the Leverett House Old Library. Participants will be James E. Haar, assistant professor of Music, Daniel Seltzer, associate professor of English and Mr. Jean Bruaneau, of Lyon University...
...took a lawyer to point out the unexpected advantages of her Greek citizenship. What got the lawyer into the act was the fact that Maria wanted to divorce her husband, Italian Industrialist Giovanni Meneghini, whom she married in a Roman Catholic ceremony in Verona in 1949. The trouble was, Meneghini kept saying "No." Since Italy countenances no divorces at all, nothing could be done about the situation in the country where they were married. To make matters worse, a husband's cooperation is usually required, even in such mills as Mexico and Nevada, if the divorce...
Spikes & Volts. Leopoldo Pirelli is a deeply tanned sailing enthusiast and an imaginative businessman, the third in the family line since Giovanni Battista Pirelli established the company in 1872 because his patriotism was hurt when Italy had to import rubber tubing to raise a sunken ship. He set up a factory on the site of the present Milan skyscraper headquarters, and from there Pirelli grew to be Italy's fourth largest company. Giovanni's son Alberto helped sponsor the Peking-to-Paris auto expedition in 1907 as a promotion for Pirelli tires. Alberto also took a ride...