Word: orfeo
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Wellesley College Theatre and the Department of Music: Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo." Performed in English. Jewett Auditorium...
Opera: Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo." See Saturday. Coffeehouse at Schneider presents Greg Greenway, Marshall Hughes, and John Muratore playing folk music...
Wellesley College Theatre and the Department of Music: Monteverdi's "L'Orfeo." Performed in English. Jewett Auditorium...
Worries about the virulence of the Italian kidnaping disease were soon reinforced. On the same day as the Ortiz-Patińo abduction, Italian police logged their 60th kidnaping this year. The victim was Giorgio Garbero, 4, grandson of Orfeo Pianelli, a wealthy Turin industrialist The child was seized from his stroller by two men as his grandmother wheeled him home from a park. Before the accompanying guard could reach his revolver, he was clubbed and then blinded by a chemical that one of the kidnapers sprayed in his face. The ransom demand, thought to be the highest in Italian...
Throughout its 300-year history, the Paris Opera has probably boasted more foibles than any other company-and, given the vicissitudes of the average opera company, that is saying a lot. Back in the 1770s, when it got ready to put on Gluck's landmark opera Orfeo and Euridice, 18th century male-chauvinist Parisians balked at having a male contralto play the hero, considering that an affront to their manhood; poor Gluck had to rewrite the part for tenor. In the 19th century, even a Wagner or a Verdi had to include a ballet in his opera or risk...