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Fashionable Roman Sculptor Renato Signorini said that he had accepted a gilt-edged commission from Monaco's Prince Rainier: an 18-carat solid-gold bust of Princess Grace. Buckling down to three months of "very patient work," Signorini grandly measured the value of his work-to-be: "Priceless...
Puccini: Madame Butterfly (Anna Moffo, Cesare Valletti, Rosalind Elias, Renato Cesari. Fernando Corena; Rome Opera House Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Erich Leinsdorf; RCA Victor, 3 LPs). A young cast attempts to filter the turgid dramatic tars so often found in Puccini's graceful "thread of smoke." as he called it. The result is a bright and bracing version, full of rarely realized charms. Soprano Moffo's Cio-Cio-San is vocally arresting, more woman than Japanese doll...
James S. Ackerman, visiting lecturer in Fine Arts, J. N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, Sir Hamilton A. R. Gibb, University Professor, and Renato Poggioli, chairman of the Department of Comparative Literature, participated at the first meeing of the group this past weekend...
...Renato Poggioli, Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, will teach a new course in Dante next year, Wilbur M. Frohock, chairman of the department, announced recently. This course, filling up the gap in Italian Literature courses created by the retirement of Charles M. Singleton, Professor of Romance Literature, last June, is one of three new courses planned in the department...
...music, takes place in an unidentified "city of Central Europe" where factory workers are engaged in a hopeless revolt against the oppressive power of the state. Anna, the heroine (Soprano Clara Petrella), has lost her husband in the revolt, is separated from her children and her old friend Renato (Tenor Ferrando Fegrari). Anna escapes the soldiers assigned to crush the revolt, is briefly reunited with Renato, who becomes her lover. She tries to flee with him to America, but is arrested and shot down when she attempts to escape from a police station. "Love," concludes Composer Rossellini, "is the only...