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...hard-charging executive like Alberto Ferraris, being named chief financial officer of an $8.7 billion company was a career-making moment--and he wasn't going to let a few nagging doubts stand in his way. Since the company was Parmalat, the Italian dairy-and-food conglomerate that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged with perpetrating "one of the largest and most brazen corporate frauds in history," and since Ferraris, 46, now faces charges of market rigging and issuing false information, he may wish he had heeded those doubts. But back in March 2003, he says, he knew...
...Teatro alla Scala's sparkling inauguration in Milan on Dec. 7 was a triumphant return to form. Italy 's bel mondo turned out to see maestro Riccardo Muti conduct Italian composer Antonio Salieri's Europa Riconosciuta (Europa Revealed) - which hadn't been performed since its original production for La Scala's inauguration in 1778. If you didn't manage to snag a 32,000 super-prima ticket, there are repeat performances until mid-January. But it was the renovated theater, restored to its 18th century magnificence and technologically catapulted into the 21st century after $81.3 million and 30 months, that...
Silvio's Highs And Lows Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi basked - albeit briefly - in a Milan court's ruling that cleared him of corruption charges in a case he'd long maintained was politically motivated. "Better late than never," he said Friday, after a three-judge panel lifted a judicial cloud that had followed Berlusconi since he entered politics in 1994. The court absolved the billionaire media mogul of bribing judges during a mid-1980s takeover battle. Still, the judges stopped short of a full acquittal, invoking the statute of limitations on a related bribery charge, implying some degree...
...REOPENED. LA SCALA, celebrated Italian opera house; after a three-year, $81 million renovation; in Milan. The event drew 2,000 VIPs, including Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and actress Sophia Loren, and featured a performance of Antonio Salieri's Europa Revealed, La Scala's inaugural opera...
Think of your typical Italian opera. Now substitute a trance beat for the aria, a blank screen for the Venetian cityscape, a hand-crafted marionette for the buxom donna and art for her paramour...