Word: siciliani
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This season La Scala's new Artistic Director Francesco Siciliani began needling Ghiringhelli about pampering prima donnas. Even before Callas' celebrated walkout on a Rome audience including Italian President Gronchi last January (TIME, Jan. 13), Ghiringhelli pointedly skipped his ritual of meeting her at the airport with flowers...
...Domenico had not been so closely involved in a theatrical production since medieval days. Never - so far as Vatican authorities could remember - had any Roman Catholic church been used for a ballet performance. The idea came last spring to Francesco Siciliani, art director of the Florence Community Theater. He broached it to Massine (who is Russian Orthodox), and the choreographer went to work. Siciliani got ecclesiastical permission from the Dominicans of San Domenico and from the Archbishop of Perugia...
Director Francesco Siciliani had combed through the composer's entire output to find six representative operas. He chose Armida (composed in 1817), Il Conte Ory (1828), Tancredi (1813), La Scala di Seta (1812), La Pietra del Paragone (1812) and William Tell (1829). Florence critics relished all of them, singled out the "scenic and choreographic spectacle" of Armida, hailed Ory as the "first musical comedy of the 19th century," called La Pietra "second only to The Barber of Seville." But the lid came off for Tell...