Word: nicolas
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...opera was Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda, an obscure chronicle of intrigue and infidelity in medieval Italy, which flopped at its Venice premiere in 1833 and had not been done in the U.S. for a century. The American Opera Society's orchestra, awkwardly led by Conductor Nicola Rescigno, sounded coarse. The supporting cast in the concert performance was uninspired. Soprano Joan Sutherland's mother - her first voice teacher -had died the day before in London. But in her New York debut, Joan Sutherland proved what past appearances (London, Venice, Dallas) had already shown: that even...
When Australia began its defense of the Davis Cup last week in Sydney, the headlines belonged to the emotional antics of the pair of challenging Italians, Orlando Sirola and Nicola Pietrangeli, who had knocked out the U.S. team. Then onto the court for Australia walked a pair of lefthanders who never weep and never giggle, shudder at the idea of throwing a racket or a tantrum. All Neale Fraser, 27, and Rod ("Rocket") Laver, 22, ever seem to do is win-and last week they defended the Davis Cup with a brand of tennis that has become indisputably the best...
Whenever the going got rough, an invariable sequence of events always seemed to overtake Italy's two standout tennis stars: lithe Nicola Pietrangeli would weep, towering Orlando Sirola would laugh, and, sooner or later, both would get beaten. But last week in the Davis Cup interzone finals in Perth, Australia, the emotional Italians, crying and chortling as always, suddenly turned tough under pressure. After losing two matches in a row, they rallied to defeat a favored squad of U.S. youngsters 3-2, thereby earned Italy the right to challenge the proud Australians later this month for the Davis...
Last summer, intrigued by the legend of Chryse, a skindiving Italian nobleman, the Marquis Piero Nicola Gargallo, set out to find the vanished island. A serious amateur archaeologist, Gargallo, 32, centered his search in the area favored by traditional archaeological opinion-near the Dardanelles, on the ancient Greek invasion route to Troy. For tips on the island's precise location, he reread the pertinent passages in Homer and other ancients. Then, studying a detailed British navy map, he came upon a sunken land mass known as Kharos Bank, a 10-sq.-mi. area near the island of Lemnos, mentioned...
Paisiello: The Barber of Seville (Grazielli Sciutti, Nicola Monti, Rolando Panerai, Renato Capecchi; Virtuosi di Roma, conducted by Renato Fasano; Mercury, 2 LPs). "He has received the homage of his age and has assured to himself that of posterity." Thus Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) paid tribute to himself in a contemporary dictionary. Unfortunately for his prediction, a rival named Rossini later wrote his own Barber of Seville and drove the older work from the stage. In this recording, Paisiello's Barber emerges as a smaller-scaled work than Rossini's but with a gay, quicksilvery score, some limpidly...