Word: mortari
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...production was La Figlia del Diavolo (The Devil's Daughter), an unfamiliar approach to the old story of Salome, in which Composer Virgilio Mortari, 51, lightens Salome's character considerably while blackening still more that of her evil mother Herodias. In the Mortari approach, Herodias is literally the devil incarnate, and the part demands a mezzo-soprano who can sing, act and dance for close to 50 minutes almost without pause, and-not least-look devilishly attractive. Mortari and La Scala thought it over, last November offered the part to Rise...
...performance was a decided improvement, but hardly a smash. The story line was draggy, and the score was short of the big arias Italian audiences love. Most startling of all, perhaps, was the reform and regeneration of daughter Salome, who, in Mortari's version, winds up trying to save her poor victim. John the Baptist, and earning her own salvation...
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