Word: pizzetti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...festival was dogged by bad luck and bad weather, last summer had to close up shop in midseason. This summer, operating from a new site, it has come back stronger than ever. Last week, with the first Eastern performance of Handel's Semele and a performance of Pizzetti's Murder in the Cathedral (TIME, March 17, 1958), it had the look and the ebullient sound of the healthiest summer festival in the land...
...swiftly signaled the sound engineers to stop the recording. Then she helped Conductor Franco Ferrara to a chair, plied him with black coffee. Ten minutes later he rapped the Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome to silence, led them the rest of the way through a singing recording of Ildebrando Pizzetti's Canti della Stagione Alta...
...opening night of the Maggio Musicale she saw her first performance of Verdi's Macbeth, was a bit disappointed in the production but not at all in the music. Before she went off to Switzerland, she caught a dress rehearsal and the premiere of Ildebrando Pizzetti's new opera Iphegenia...