Word: milan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Casa Ricordi in Milan is the world's most fabled storehouse of Italian opera. In 17 zinc cases sunk 45 ft. below the ground, the firm has stored away original operatic manuscripts by most of the great Italian composers, including Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi and Puccini. One discordant note in this musical melange: the firm is under heavy criticism for permitting errors by the thousands to creep into its printed scores-and for refusing to let outsiders compare them with the originals. Last week the criticism grew so loud and bitter that the Italian Senate considered new copyright rules that...
Rocco and His Brothers (Titanus-Films Marceau; Astor) is an interminable, sprawling, jerkily cut and overpraised melodrama (winner of 22 awards including the Venice Film Festival top prize for 1960) about the troubles of a peasant mother and her five sons who migrate to Milan from a farming village in southern Italy. Its director is Luchino Visconti, a film-struck Roman aristocrat currently revered as one of the triumvirate-along with Federico Fellini (La Strada, La Dolce Vita) and Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura)-which has brought Italian film making out of its mid-fifties doldrums...
...Knees. Soprano Tynes, 29, flew to New York last spring from Milan, where she was studying voice, to audition for Schippers. After listening to her and looking at her small, shapely figure ("Rarely." wrote an Italian critic, "have we seen a physique so perfectly adapted to the role"), Schippers announced: "This is Salome." The daughter of a clergyman, Tynes studied at Juilliard, sang with the New York City Opera and on television before settling in Italy. For a while, the idea of playing Salome disturbed her. Even after the opening night performance, she knelt down in her dressing room...
...Florence for "reprehensible conduct." In more sober moods he reputedly wrote 100 operas, many of them tradition-breaking efforts that helped determine the shape of opera to come. Last week the first, and one of the best, of Cesti's works, his three-act Orontea, was back in Milan after an absence of 300 years. It still looked fresh enough, enthused Milan's Il Giorno, "to teach today's composers how an opera should be written...
...next volumes will range from Assyria to the post-Carolingian art that flourished around Autun; by the time the $7,000,000 project is complete, virtually every place and period will have been covered. With six publishing houses in various countries involved, each volume will appear in Paris, Milan, Madrid, Munich, London, New York and eventually Tokyo. For Sumer, Malraux himself chose the 557 black-and-white and color illustrations, often sending photographers back to shoot a particular work for a second time. Once Malraux was satisfied, the photographs were dispatched to the various publishers in specially upholstered, hermetically sealed...