Word: giovanni
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Lamont University Professor Amartya K. Sen will fly to Turin in March to receive the Fiat Group's Senator Giovanni Agnelli International Prize for the Ethical Dimension in Advanced Societies...
Italy's foreign minister, Giovanni De Michelis, said, "The evolution of Eastern Europe obviously creates the necessity of evolution on the Western side...
Mozart wanted even his darkest operas to end with the characters reconciled and order restored, and so he followed the fiery disappearance of Don Giovanni with a cheery little sextet in which the survivors tell everyone to mend his ways. Sellars' contemporary sensibility seems unable to accept such a stylized ending, and so he attributes the sextet not to the survivors of the disaster but to the suffering ghosts of those same survivors...
Just as Sellars' transfer of Don Giovanni to a phantasmagorical Spanish Harlem really tells us very little about Harlem, it also tells us nothing new about Don Giovanni. There have been so many changes in plot and character that Giovanni is no longer Mozart's defiant hero but a quite different and less interesting character of Sellars' creation. In the intensely dramatic finale, for example, he is not dragged unrepentant to hell by the statue of the man he murdered but rather led there, while groveling in his underwear, by a young girl in what looks like a Communion dress...
...Giovanni in Spanish Harlem? Figaro in Trump Tower? Why? A skeptical view of Peter Sellars' zany productions of three Mozart-Da Ponte works...