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After fueling up, visit the Palazzo Madama, a royal residence that houses the Museo Civico d'Arte Antica. The regional collection of tapestries, paintings and ceramics can be skipped for a quick - and free - viewing of renowned architect Filippo Juvarra's staircase, the Scala delle Forbici, on the western side of the building. Across the Piazza Castello is the Palazzo Reale, which was damaged by fire in 1997. But much of the restoration is complete and can be enjoyed from outside in the open gardens or inside in the majestic corridors...
...1980s, it was said that practically any deal in Italy needed the blessing of the bank's politically savvy chairman, Enrico Cuccia. A so-called Northern Galaxy - including Trieste-based insurance giant Assicurazioni Generali, BCI, and Florentine insurer La Fondiaria - revolved around Cuccia's office behind La Scala opera house. Fiat was long regarded as an ally. That extraordinary power has been chipped away over the past 10 years. After European monetary union and a round of bank consolidations, Italian finance got too big to fit on Cuccia's desk. The banks that were the key investors in and allies...
...First on the scene was the French-born Roberto Alagna, who had people talking about "the new Pavarotti" with his 1990 performance in La Traviata at Milan's La Scala. When, six years later, he married the sensational young Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu, you could almost hear record company executives cheer. By Three Tenors standards, however, the couple's sales have disappointed. Alagna's label, EMI, is reluctant to disclose figures, but according to music retailer HMV, his best showing-an album of duets with Gheorghiu-sold no more than 70,000 copies in Britain. Critically overshadowed by his wife...
...seen the music world excited by two new voices, both snapped up by Sony: another Argentinian, Marcelo Alvarez, and the Italian Salvatore Licitra. Alvarez, however, has a voice too light for the supertenors' territory of arenas and stadiums, and Licitra is still unproved-although recent performances at La Scala have set music critics writing things like "Not since Pavarotti...
...schedule includes pledge-drive appearances on public-TV stations across the country and a June 14 benefit performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington that President Clinton was expected to attend (she has already sung for the Pope). Her dream, she says, is to sing Madama Butterfly at La Scala, and she's just about the right age for it. Puccini's doomed heroine was 15 years old; Church...