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Lombardy, which includes industrial Milan, is one of the citadels of Communist Party strength (some 340,000 of the total claimed Italian membership of 2,500,000). A recent drop in party membership there, and a more serious decline of 75,000 membership in Lombardy's Red-run trade unions, shows the need for a tough, driving organizer of Secchia's caliber. But it is also the kind of job in which an out-of-favor Communist can be made to look bad. If the Communists intended to honor Secchia with the appointment, they would hardly have removed...
...sing for the Communists. Still, the Municipal Opera made out, and when the rival companies mounted simultaneous productions of, say, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, it was a tossup which was superior (although neither achieved the standard of the old Berlin State Opera, New York's Metropolitan or Milan's La Scala...
Italy. In Milan, the biggest exchange in Italy, the index of 144 stocks rose 80% during the year, as the volume of trading soared from an average 650,000 shares a day to nearly 3,000,000. Among the biggest rises: Siele mercury, up 313% to $19; Fiat motors, up 116% to $2.25. Last week, however, Milan's bull, like Wall Street's (TIME, Jan. 17) stumbled and stopped to catch its breath; the price index dropped...
When Gian-Carlo Menotti was a child, at home near Milan, he was crippled in one leg. A devout nurse took him to a shrine of the Madonna, and shortly afterwards he was cured. He still believes that his cure could have been miraculous. But at the same time, Composer Menotti also believes that he does not believe: he admits to skepticism and has left the Roman Catholic Church. This contradiction has turned up in Menotti operas before (e.g., The Medium), in the shape of dramatic conflicts between some form of faith and reason. The theme is rousingly treated...
Rossini: II Signer Bruschino (Milan Philharmonic and soloists conducted by Ennio Gerelli; Vox). A lighthearted, lightweight and well-sung little opera in its only LP version...