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...guess each other's identities and incidentally raise money for the Venetian artisans still suffering the effects of last November's widespread floods. When the masks came off at 1:30 a.m., the revelers turned out to include: Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, Aristotle Onassis, Gian Carlo Menotti, Paul Getty, Princess Alexandra of Greece, three Princesses Ruspoli, Rose Kennedy, Clare Boothe Luce, Sonny and Marylou Whitney, who wore rhinestones in honor of her recent $780,000 jewel theft, and Richard and Elizabeth Burton, who had dispatched a plane first to Sardinia and then to Rome to fetch...
...paintings and drawings on display last week at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in California includes a veritable gallery of Shahn's recent enthusiasms (see color opposite). The sparkling poster for the Festival of Two Worlds at Spoleto, executed at the request of Composer Gian Carlo Menotti, shows a dashing harlequin of the Italian Renaissance theater's commedia dell' arte...
...annual Harvard Summer School Tour to Plymouth and Falmouth will be held Sat., August 12. Tour includes stops at Plymouth Plantation, Mayflower II, and Falmouth Beach and a performance of Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Medium and The Telephone by the Oberlin College Gilbert and Sullivan Players. Reservations and tickets at the Social Director's Office, 4 Matthews Hall...
...annual Harvard Summer School tour to Plymouth and Falmouth will be held Sat., August 12. Tour includes stops at Plymouth Plantation, May-flower II, and Falmouth Beach and a performance of Gian-Carlo Menotti's.The Medium and The Telephone by the Oberlin College Gilbert and Sullivan Players. Reservations and tickets at the Social Director's office, 4 Matthews Hall...
...Menotti says of the unusual collaboration: "We both wanted simplicity, universality and timelessness, eliminating all the unnecessary claptrap." In the flexible, open spaces, Menotti deployed his accomplished cast of American and Italian singers in fluid lines and ghostly dances, spelling out his concept that "the whole opera is based on the characters' search for each other." The designs simplified rather than complicated his problems of staging. Moore's sets "do not swamp the opera but bring out its tragedy and symbolism," Menotti says. "His sculptures are passionate and compassionate: they seem to be listening to Mozart...