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Music Researcher Dorothea Bourne took something of a busman's holiday. Landing from the new S.S. Independence in Naples, she was soon enjoying a magnificently costumed production of Otello at Rome's Teatro dell'Opera, later, in Venice, met Composer Gian Francesco Malipiero and Conductor Angelo Ephrikian. In Florence, while sampling the music at hand, she insists that in a nightclub she discovered the "last resting place of bop." At opening night of the Maggio Musicale she saw her first performance of Verdi's Macbeth, was a bit disappointed in the production...
Long Hours. Recently, welcome word came to Italy that Ulanova would appear for a festival concert at Florence's Teatro Comunale. Into Florence, three weeks ago, came ten Russians, accompanied by the secretary of the Rome Embassy and an Italian Communist bigwig. Heading and herding the group was one Alexander Kholodilin, bearer of a jawbreaking title: Chief of the Central Delegation of the Musical Institution of the Art Committee of the U.S.S.R. Council of Ministers. His wards were the cream of Russian stars. Eight of them-three concert singers, two violinists, a pianist, two ballet dancers...
...honor Simon Bolivar, Bogota's Teatro Colon scheduled a new French play about El Libertador's fight for freedom, entitled Montserrat. The Ministry of Education gave its blessing; President Laure-ano Gomez himself went to the opening-night performance...
...Rome's Teatro Adriano, where Mussolini used to hold Blackshirt rallies, Italian Communists gathered last week for a long-delayed seventh national party congress. Peace-Red style-was the battle cry of 748 delegates and more than 1,000 special guests...
Although Anna Maria was news to most Americans, her singing had been pleasing listeners in Italy and elsewhere on the Continent for a good while. In 1943 her father, now a cellist with Bologna's Teatro Comunale, then director of a music conservatory on the beleaguered island of Rhodes, wanted very much to get his family back to Italy; six-year-old Anna cinched the airplane priority by piping Caro Nome for the island's military governor. At war's end she got showers of caramels from American G.I.s by warbling Gounod's Ave Maria...