Word: neapolitan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reducing the prevelance of the flashbacks, the opera tells the story sequentially, with an ending climax where Ethan and Mattie have an aria "reminiscent of Macbeth--a crossing of the paths" which makes use of the Neapolitan scale that followed Allanbrook Sr. home from the Santo Carlo Operas. Egan, who spent the summer working at the Santa Fe Opera with Jonathan Miller, will be stage directing the preformance, and his hand-picked cast promises a great show...
From his vantage point in Rome, where he has lived for two years, Leavitt views the Esquire flap with a mixture of irritation and bemusement. "I wish the story had been published," he says, sipping a cup of cappuccino at a Neapolitan cafe near the Chamber of Deputies. "I think it would have gotten a lot of attention as a story, and not as a news story." He doubts that any automobile ads would have been pulled from the magazine if his story had appeared in its pages. "Do you know how many gay men own Jeeps...
...introduces the postman (Troisi) to the verbal rapture of metaphors; aids him in winning over the sultry, feral Beatrice (Maria Grazia Cucinotta); then abandons Mario to return home. But the film's true poetry is in Troisi's face--gaunt and ethereal, like that of a Jesus in a Neapolitan pageant. The audience needs no subtitles to read the feelings in this man's brave, troubled heart...
...where Poussin spent most of his life. Born in Normandy in 1594 (his father was a military officer, his mother an alderman's daughter), he was educated, probably by Jesuits, in Paris, and turned to painting before he was 20. A chance encounter with Giambattista Marino, the floridly precious Neapolitan poet who had taken political asylum at the Paris court of Marie de Medicis, led to introductions in Rome, and he went there in 1624. From then until his death in 1665, Poussin returned to France only once, for a brief two years (1640-42), during which Louis XIII tried...
...Biennale is the world's oldest modern art festival, dating back to 1895. Every two years a commissioner is appointed to oversee its structure and content. This year the task fell to a Neapolitan art critic named Achille Bonito Oliva. Bonito Oliva is a mini-celebrity in Italy, an imbonitore, or bustling promoter, of groups and movements, who gave the '80s its silliest piece of art jargon, "la transavanguardia," the "trans-avant-garde." He wanted to create a Biennale that would transcend national differences and illustrate "cultural nomadism." To put it charitably, his talents are not up to the task...