Word: ildebrando
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week "Frau Professor" Wallmann's 127th production, a three-act spectacular, Clitennestra, by Italian Composer Ildebrando Pizzetti, had its world premiere at Milan's La Scala. Musically, the work was something of a dud-somber, repetitive, unnecessarily difficult to sing. But as exciting theater, the bloodthirsty Agamemnon legend is hard to beat, and Wallmann did not try: instead she moved her chorus in a plastic combination of Greek tragedy and modern ballet, guided Star Soprano Clara Petrella in a performance of icy majesty, and won unanimous critical acclaim for what Milan's Corriere d'Informazione...
Carlo Confalonieri, 69, and Ildebrando Antoniutti, 64, both appear to be moderate-minded Curia professionals with few enemies; their major drawback is a lack of pastoral experience...
...Nunes of Portugal; Efrem Forni, the apostolic nuncio to Belgium; Archbishop Juan Landazuri Ricketts of Lima; Gabriel Acacio Coussa of Syria; Archbishop Raul Silva Henriques of Santiago, Chile; Archbishop Leo Suenens of Malines-Brussels; Dominican Father Michael Browne; Vatican Librarian Anselmo Albareda. In accordance with tradition, Giovanni Panico and Ildebrando Antoniutti, the apostolic nuncios to Portugal and Spain, will receive their red hats from the heads of state in those countries. - Cardinals who belong to religious orders wear robes that are the same color as the habit of their order...
Castelnuovo-Tedesco feels that in a way he is "contemporaneous" with Shylock, since "some of my ancestors were bankers in Florence when Shylock was a banker in Venice." A promising pianist, Castelnuovo-Tedesco studied composition under Ildebrando (Murder in the Cathedral) Pizzetti, built a successful prewar career, but in 1939 his music was banned by Mussolini. He fled with his family to California, where he composed movie scores, taught, and became a U.S. citizen. Although he still lives in Beverly Hills most of the time, he returns to Italy periodically, because "there is not much future in writing opera...