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...Sills herself. Last week she did, in a way that should silence doubters and suggest to everyone else that she will go on singing for at least another ten years. At the New York City Opera, Sills took aim at one of the toughest operas in all bel canto, Vincenzo Bellini's I Puritani. When she was done, Bellini was on his knees, the capacity audience at the New York State Theater on its feet for a long ovation. In post-World War II productions of Puritani, only Maria Callas has achieved anything to equal Sills' limpid coloration...
Another arrested suspect was Vincenzo Mammoliti, 43, an olive-oil dealer from the Calabrian coastal town of Gioia Tauro, who reportedly spent 22 years in the U.S. and is said to be a member of a Mafia-like family of Calabrian criminals. His brother, Saverio Mammoliti, an escaped convict with a criminal record that includes armed robbery, vanished before the police sprang their trap. Of the eight men arrested, at least three were found with some of the marked ransom money. But police so far have refused to divulge how much of the ransom has been recovered...
...rural roads, the chassis had to be redesigned to ride 1½ inches higher off the ground than the 124. To survive bitter Soviet winters, the car had to start unfailingly at -13° F. "To do all this in the time allowed, we had to take risks," recalls Vincenzo Buffa, Fiat vice-director-general. "We started building before we knew what machines would be needed" to construct the modified...
...heard a zealot of our profession say that the appearance of this man meant a foreboding of ruin and an end to painting," complained Vincenzo Carducho, a Spanish connoisseur. "Did anyone ever paint, and with as much success, as this monster of genius and talent, almost without rules, without theory, without learning or meditation, simply by the power of his genius and the model in front of him which he copied so admirably?" The cause of alarm was an Italian painter named Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio who, in the course of a short, fiery and often pitiable career, changed...
...Vincenzo Bellini's 1831 opera Norma is one of the Matterhorns of the repertory for sopranos. Many of the world's finest singers have come to grief on its melodic precipices because they lacked the bel canto technique, emotional projection, and soaringly powerful voice that the title role requires. The 19th century Soprano Lilli Lehmann said it was easier to sing three Brünnhildes than one Norma, and the great French Prima Donna Pauline Viardot was so obsessed with the difficulties of the part that the last word she spoke on her deathbed was "Norma." Maria Callas...