Word: legnano
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...world, he can draw fair comparisons on how we see our society and how it is seen outside our borders. I'm not really patriotic, but your review somehow made me a little prouder of being Italian, with all the pros and cons included. Francesco Villa San Giorgio su Legnano, Italy...
...opera at Milan's La Scala last week was Verdi's Battle of Legnano, and the principals bore glittering reputations -Soprano Antonietta Stella, Tenor Franco Corelli. But as anxious to please as either of them were the two men posted on either side of the first gallery (the fifth tier). Antonio Carrara, 33, and Carmelo Alabisio, 76, can lay claim to being opera's most successful dispensers of professional applause...
...because they wanted a :omposer who had written enough to feed the festival for years, the Augsburgers aicked Verdi, and reminded visitors that :he city was once Germany's gateway to Italian commerce. This year Augsburg is offering Verdi's Otello and his rarely performed Battle of Legnano on an open-air stage with the city's famed medieval Red ate as a backdrop...
...bearing the same crossed-shield device that Italy's Christian Democrats now use for their emblem, led the Lombard League victoriously against the troops of another foreign menace, Barbarossa, at Legnano...
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