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...petty. Virna Lisi, as an icy aristocrat, is confined to reaction shots opposite her two admirers: Hardy Kruger, a profile of German authority, and Sergio Franchi, a profile, period. The show's force does not reassert itself until the appearance of the extras, a cluster of paesani recruited from an Italian village 36 miles south of Rome. They provide a chorus con brio, and give the film verisimilitude no casting office could provide. "The Italian race," wrote Mussolini, "is a race of sheep." By going to the source. The Secret of Santa Vittoria shows why he lost that race...
...datorium. Some vestiges of Merola's Neapolitan hand still persist in the company's top-heavy Italian repertoire. Last week, Adler opened the new season with a week of pure paesani, starting with Aïda - as the company has done so often that a local critic named the War Memorial Opera House the Aïdatorium. But the new season also includes Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, Strauss's Capriccio, Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades - all operas the Met audience will...
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