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...action of the opera takes place in Persia, in front of the redbrick dwelling of Romilda (Amy Burton), the damsel who is in love with Arsamene (David Daniels), King Xerxes' (Lorraine Hunt) brother...
...Xerxes, who is also in search of love, chooses Romilda to be his bride. The matter is complicated by the appearance of Atalanta (Susannah Waters), Romilda's sister, who also loves Arsamene, and Amastre (Kitt Reuter-Foss), a princess--although she appears disguised as a man--that Xerxes had promised to marry...
...strange sensation to play myself." Sophia is less flustered by her other part in Sophia, a TV movie based on A.E. Hotchner's 1979 biography. Indeed, she needs little more than a blond wig and her own vivid memories to portray her stunning mother, Romilda Villani, now 64. "My mother is everything," says the adoring daughter. "She is beautiful, instinctive and with the craziness of the artist in her, something I've had to control in myself." Sophia plays Mama to Letizia d'Adderio, 9, and two other young actresses who portray Loren from age four...
Generazione Bruciata. In the early days, before World War II, Romilda helped support her daughters by giving piano lessons in Pozzuoli and playing in local cafés. Sophia's grandfather-who now at 78 struts about town in the warmth of his magic celebrity-was then a cannon maker at the local arms factory. In the four-room family flat, nine people slept in one bedroom; Sophia shared a bed with her grandmother, grandfather and an aunt...
...There I told my first big lie for Sophia," Romilda says. "Someone called out. This way for girls who speak English.' 'Sure!' I told the man, 'my daughter speaks English. Don't you speak English, Sophia?' 'Sì, Mamma.' And we found ourselves in a room with lots of people and Mervyn LeRoy sitting in a chair. He said in English, 'Do you speak English?' And Sophia asked me in Italian what he was saying. They realized we were bluffing, but for our courage they gave us both jobs...