Word: rome
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...Carreras-to risk their reputations and submerge their famous egos by appearing on the same stage seemed preposterous. It happened only because Domingo and Pavarotti wanted to help Carreras, financially drained after a battle with leukemia. Yet when the musical titans gathered before 6,000 people at Rome's Baths of Caracalla one July night in 1990, operatic history was made...
...Since then the Three Tenors, as they are everywhere known, have become classical music's hottest act. The concert album of the Rome event sold more than 2 million copies in the U.S. alone, an opera milestone. By the time the Three Tenors held their second concert, at Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium in 1994 (to a crowd of 60,000), the television audience exceeded 1 billion. A world tour followed, and last year the singing showmen performed at venues from Brazil's Morumbi Stadium to the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. They sell records and they sell...
...Gore Vidal, in his lovely essay called "Some Memories of the Glorious Bird" - actually a review of Tennessee Williams' memoirs - wrote with immense affection of 1948. He remembered the year as a golden age, best savored in Rome or New York City. Best Year tends to be the year when you were young and strong, and had just made the giddy discovery that you could commit great follies and survive them - the discovery that you were, for practical purposes and for the indefinite future, immortal...
...Coleman says she believes that the Hollywood vision of Rome is based more on 19th and 20th century interpretation than on primary reasearch. She points to the work of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painter Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema as feeding the "sword and sandal" look of prior films...
...Tomaso and Anna Longo took out a loan with the Banca di Roma to buy a two-bedroom house in the fashionable Prati section near the heart of Rome. The interest was a painful 12.5%, but the Longos had little alternative, since that was about the average rate on a home mortgage in those days. Anna, a civil servant, says that life became a matter of pinching lire. "We couldn't ever go away anywhere," she recalls. "We didn't even go out to the cinema...