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Pavarotti had some distinguished company. In the pit was Gianandrea Gavazzeni, 67, whose 50 years at Milan's La Scala include associations with Toscanini, Mascagni and Giordano. Gavazzeni led a performance that was full of controlled excitement; at the same time, he was consistently thoughtful of his singers. His support of Veteran Soprano Renata Scot to (Leonora), who sang the precarious D 'amor sull 'ali rosee in Act IV with extreme caution, was a memorable lesson in podium gallantry...
...through the University of Florida, earning a B.A. and an M.A. in the history of ideas. In the mid-'60s she moved to New York, enrolled in a Ph.D. program at Columbia University, then dropped out and worked as a model in New York, Paris and Milan. She does not care to dwell on her modeling career "because when you say 'model,' people think you're frivolous...
Built last spring, this housing project in Milan, Italy, was originally set up for private families who could afford to pay the rents in this rather well-to-do part of the city. But just before construction of the block of apartments was completed, the Italian Communist Party moved 1500 homeless people from as far south as Calabria and Sicily into the building...
There was very little the private owners could do to protest the action--the police would have had a hard time evicting 1500 people who had nowhere to go, and the party controls the Milan City Council anyway. So the squatters are still living in the not-quite-finished building, and the party is compensating the intended owners...
Johnson is master of the arresting detail, the vivid personality sketch. In an evocative little essay on St. Ambrose, the Roman magistrate who became Bishop of Milan in 373, he pauses to note Augustine's surprise when he found that Ambrose could read silently to himself-a rare skill in the ancient world. Discussing the opening of the Council of Trent, the great 16th century Catholic assembly that began the Counter Reformation, he observes how Christoforo Madruzzo, the host bishop, opened the meeting with a 74-dish banquet and 100-year-old wine. After dinner, Madruzzo...