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This disorientation is reinforced by one of the strong elements in the production, the sets. They are fashioned with billowing flair by PierLuigi Samaritani and meticulously painted in Italy. Samaritani is experienced in designing sets for operas. His visions gloriously summon up the richness of legendary India, but sometimes overpower delicate, intricate movements. In scale and detail they seem more suited to leisurely appreciation during a long aria...
...investors now hold substantial interests in Immobiliare, the Vatican is the company's largest single stockholder, and three members of Rome's "Black" nobility, including a nephew of Pope Pius XII, sit on Immobiliare's board. The man who runs things at Immobiliare is Aldo Samaritani, 58, the company's shrewd, publicity-shunning general manager...
...Samaritani is described by some of his colleagues as "a human computer." An ex-banker who joined Immobiliare in 1933, he has been the man primarily responsible for converting the company from a land investment firm into the construction titan it now is. Washington's Watergate project is part of his latest drive to diversify Immobiliare by moving abroad. Besides Watergate, Immobiliare is now building apartment houses in Paris and Montreal, and is negotiating to build three 45-story office buildings in Montreal's Victoria Square, the heart of the city's financial district...
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