Word: renata
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Renata Scotto, 49, opera singer whose husband Lorenzo Anselmi abandoned his work as a violinist after they were married 24 years ago: "The biggest decision a man can make is to give up his own career to dedicate himself to his wife...
FICTION: The Anatomy Lesson, Philip Roth ∙ A House in the Country, José Donoso ∙ Leaving the Land, Douglas Unger ∙ Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee ∙ Pitch Dark, Renata Adler ∙ The Salt Line, Elizabeth Spencer
...lacks a single memorable melody, the essential ingredient that keeps a relic like Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur on the boards. Its plot, however, is operatic gold. Based on a play by Gabriele d'Annunzio, it recounts an episode from Dante's Inferno. Francesca (Soprano Renata Scotto) is tricked into marrying the deformed Gianciotto (Baritone Cornell MacNeil) when his handsome brother Paolo (Tenor Placido Domingo) comes courting in his place. Inevitably, though, wife and brother-in-law fall into an adulterous embrace and are discovered by Gianciotto, who murders them...
ABOVE ALL. Renata Adler's new novel, Pitch Dark, suffers from a preponderance of style over substance. Impeccably written, this fourth novel by a frequent contributor to the New Yorker lacks the one ingredient necessary to sustain the reader's interest, a story...
They met 18 months ago on the Caribbean island of Montserrat, where he was recording the funky album Too Low for Zero; but as they emerged from an Anglican church in a prosperous suburb of Sydney, Australia, Elton John, 36, and his bride, German-born Sound Engineer Renata Blauel, 30, were singing anything but the blues. "I really love Renata," John told reporters. "And yes, I'm nervous." John, who once described himself as a "male Betty Boop," reportedly gave his beloved a large heart-shaped necklace with 26 diamonds before flying to New Zealand, first stop...