Word: missiroli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revival, says La Scala's Co-Artistic Director Bindo Missiroli, has all "the nobility of an epic religious poem." Schippers himself regards The Siege of Corinth as "the most inventive opera Rossini ever wrote." Hard-to-please Milanese opera buffs are paying the ultimate compliment to the Michigan-born maestro: they say that it is really the work of a new composer named Rossini-Schippers...
Smeared all over the Italian press was a series of "re-examinations," to which readers responded with enthusiastic letters. "He was shy, notwithstanding all his arrogance," wrote ex-Editor Mario Missiroli, of the weekly Epoca. Concluded Domenico Bartoli, of Milan's Corriere della Sera: "His intuition in evaluating the weakness of his adversaries was penetrating and exact." Paolo Rossi, vice president of the Chamber of Deputies, went further. "One must admit," said he, "that Mussolini's conqueror's march [on Rome, when he took power from Victor Emmanuel III in 1922], considered as an art work...
Talented Local. In the opinion of Bindo Missiroli, an insurance broker who founded the Bergamo festival in 1937 (it was interrupted by the war), post-Puccini Italians of both the verismo and the twelve-tone school are "still the world's greatest opera composers. In Germany the modernists use the voice as another instrument, seldom giving importance to the word. Italians want to under stand what's going on." The biggest hit of the festival last week was the world première of a 143-year-old one-acter titled Pygmalion, composed not by a modern twelve...