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...Dava Sobel?s "Longitude" became an international bestseller, translated into more than 20 languages. Sobel, a former NYT science reporter, went on to write "Galileo?s Daughter," the story of the renaissance scientist?s life and times, and his relationship with his daughter, Suor Maria Celeste, a Poor Clare nun. Now, Sobel has edited and translated "Letters to Father: Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633" (Walker; November 16). Kirkus is transported, giving the book a starred review. "The gentle, intelligent voice of Galileo?s daughter speaks across the centuries in 124 remarkable epistles--published for the first time...
Hiqh-Level Dismay. At the same time, the Communists have renewed their pressure on Cambodia. Three crack NVA regiments last week tangled with elite Cambodian troops for control of the Vihear Suor marshes on the east bank of the Mekong, which are the key to the eastern defenses of Phnom-Penh. In the Cambodian capital, a mere dozen miles away, residents could hear the fighting. While the Communists appear to have no interest in toppling Phnom-Penh, they want.control of the marshes to increase their flexibility in responding to potential ARVN attacks...
Died. Giovacchino Forzano, 86, Italian playwright and librettist noted for his work with Puccini; in Rome. Forzano won plaudits for his librettos for Puccini's one-act Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica, and contributed librettos for such other composers as Mascagni, Leoncavallo and Lehar. Italians also remember him as the dramatist who nursed Mussolini's passion to write, thrice co-authoring plays with H Duce...
...freedom, The Marriage of Figaro on the corruption of aristocracy, Don Carlos on the dilemmas of power. Opera plots and music are sexy. Most operatic heroines fail to wait for the wedding ceremony (Manon, Mimi, Tosca, Aïda, Carmen, Santuzza, Brünnhilde), and they (Norma, Marguerite, Sieglinde, Suor Angelica) have a lot of illegitimate children. Whatever one may think of the plots, one remembers the characters. Rigoletto may end up absurdly with the heroine killed by mistake and then carried in a sack by her own father, who thinks he is carrying the corpse of her traducer...
Puccini: II Tabarro, Gianni Schicchi (Cetra-Soria, 2 sides LP each). These two one-acters, with Suor Angelica, make up Puccini's Triptych, which had its world premiere at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in 1918. Gianni Schicchi, which still survives at the Met, is a bright and appealing piece of foolishness. In this recording, it is a roaring fine vehicle for first-rate Baritone Giuseppe (Falstaff) Taddei. Il Tabarro (The Cloak) is Puccini at his most melodramatic blood & thundering. These Radio Italiana performances give both operas their full due; so does the recording...