Word: gozzi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart. Writing for three years, under the shadow of death,* the composer was determined to move away from what he had come to regard as his earlier "slight" music. "Create for me something that will make the world weep," he instructed his librettists. In their adaptation of Carlo Gozzi's 18th century play, as in the Puccini score, there are more hints of harshness and modernity than in any of his other works-shrieking harmonies; a howling, fickle mob; even political irony, as when the three comic but cruel ministers complain that the graveyards are full because...
...IRENE M. Gozzi Amherst, Mass...