Word: montis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Donizetti: Elixir of Love (Margherita Carosio, Nicola Monti, Tito Gobbi; Rome Opera chorus and orchestra conducted by Gabriele Santini; Victor, 2 LPs). A 123-year-old take-off on the Tristan legend involving a desirable and wealthy wench, her two swains, a phony love potion and a welter of sunny tunes (including Una furtiva lagrima). A painless score, handsomely performed...
Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Victoria de los Angeles, Nicola Monti, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni; Milan Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Tullio Serafin; Victor, 3 LPs). A fine performance and elegant recorded sound make this the first fully satisfactory LP of The Barber. De los Angeles' voice, while not so flexible as Pons's in her heyday, is brilliant and accurate in coloratura passages. Monti is a lyrical and affecting tenor, and Rossi-Lemeni's bass is almost too sumptuous for his tomfoolery as Basilio...
...months went by and the money owed by Monti on papers consigned to him mounted to 50,000 lire (about $80), party headquarters grew worried, then angry. Finally the party told him he must pay up. Ludovico ran all over town trying to borrow money; he even tried to borrow from the priest. Last week Ludovico Monti was finally expelled from the Communist Party for mishandling of funds...
...public humiliation Monti and his wife shut themselves in their small house. That night the Montis' lights did not go on, and the house was silent except for the call of a pet blackbird which Monti had taught to whistle Red Flag. After two such nights, the neighbors called the carabinieri, who had to knock down the door to get into the house...
...cage the blackbird sat motionless, silent and weak from hunger. On the bed lay the bodies of Ludovico and Armida Monti, and between them was the pistol with which Monti had shot first his wife, then himself. Piled beside the bed and about the house were 50,000 lire's worth of copies of Unita. Proud Ludovico Monti had not embezzled money; he had simply been unable to admit that the best Unita salesman in Tuscany could not sell as many papers as Unita had sent...