Word: puccini
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also has an abiding love of opera, with the works of Verdi and Puccini particular favorites. He and his wife Marianna, 62, have two children, Peter, 22, a student at Seton Hall University law school, and Margaret, 30, wife of Newark Judge Charles A. Stanziale Jr. Rodino served for two years as chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Nationality, and has been a staunch proponent of immigration reforms. He has also supported bills that would restrict employment of illegal aliens, who frequently are in competition for jobs with blue-collar workers in his district...
Though best known as a film actor (Topkapi, Spartacus), playwright (Romanoff and Juliet) and radio and TV wit ("NATO? Six nations in search of an enemy!"), Peter Ustinov is also an old hand at opera. Over the past decade he has staged one-acters by Puccini, Ravel and Schonberg at Covent Garden, and in 1968 he directed a successful new version of Mozart's The Magic Flute at the Hamburg State Opera. Until that possible day when he sings and acts all the parts in Wagner's Ring cycle, Ustinov's most ambitious operatic venture will...
...Malipiero, 91, Italian composer of 40 operas (Julius Caesar, Metamorphoses of Bonaventura) and eight major symphonies; of a heart attack; in Treviso, Italy. A descendant of Venetian doges, Malipiero was influenced by early Italian composers like Monteverdi but was also an innovator, writing atonal music at a time when Puccini was turning out his sweetly melodic opera scores...
...sold-out concerts at Carnegie Hall, then on to Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California. In July he will be back in the pit at Covent Garden conducting Bizet's Carmen. He will stay on in London to record Mozart's Cost fan tutte and Puccini's La Boheme; then after a month's vacation he will return to Chicago for concerts, and begin recording more Beethoven symphonies. On it goes. His engagements already run into 1977. Perhaps then he will be ready to slow down, but no one is betting...
...verbal rhythms rather in the manner of The Rake's Progress, and the music also includes several hints of jazz, which generally end up sounding like the dull parts of Porgy and Bess. Most of the score, though, is unabashedly dramatic, or at least would like to be. Lacking Puccini's capacity for soaring anguish, Floyd can't pull his listeners out of themselves by their own heartstrings. Once the poisonous mediocrity of his characters' lives becomes vivid, one begins to long for relief from it, for an affirmative statement--any affirmative statement--a high flung vocal line...