Word: goldoni
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...Pusey exhibition includes one of Craig’s model stages in his signature minimalist style. There is also an elegant set of nine miniature screens that evoke forest imagery through the use of abstract, intricate lines. Craig completed the work at the Arena Goldoni during his expatriate residence in Florence...
...This fine film from a first-timer was matched by two excellent works by grand old Frenchmen. Jacques Rivette's Va savoir! (Who Knows!) is a romantic rondelay inspired by the plays of Carlo Goldoni and Luigi Pirandello, as six characters in search of adventure entangle themselves in a buoyant comedy of manners. At 73, Rivette seems younger, lither than ever. His new film seduces viewers into the belief that nothing has deeper meaning or feeling, or danger, than the wayward heart at play...
...Academy of Music and at King's College, London, with the early-music specialist and harpsichordist Thurston Dart -- concluded that an even better way to affect the fortunes of contemporary music was to write it himself. In 1976 he composed incidental music for a play by Italian librettist Carlo Goldoni at Britain's National Theatre. He quickly found his own Minimalist style in In Re Don Giovanni (1976), and when Greenaway came calling for the first of their 10 films together, One to One Hundred, Nyman found his true pitch...
...18th-century comedy by Carlo Goldoni was originally scheduled to open yesterday, but has been rescheduled for this Friday through Sunday nights...
Libertine, blasphemer, aristocratic scapegrace, eternal anarchist, the Don Juan of legend still enthralls and disturbs the Western consciousness. He is a figure of mythic proportions, larger than the countless works of art that have tried to contain him, from Moliere and Goldoni through Byron and Shaw. The fascination of his enigmatic psychology is apparently inexhaustible. He has been seen as a Punch-like comic character; as a tragic hero, or Nietzschean rebel against God; as a walking textbook of sexual pathology. He survives all interpretations. He will survive even this one: an opulent but confused and wrongheaded adaptation...