Word: volpi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though Finance Minister Count Volpi was received with extraordinary acclaim at Rome after negotiating the Italo-U. S. debt settlement (TIME, Nov. 23, 1925) persistent rumors have since envisioned him at odds with Premier Mussolini...
...name as Love. Opinions for the most part were in perfect accord. The production itself was lavish beyond compare, Maria Jeritza was wonderfully effective as Turandot, so glinty cold as to send the shivers down 4,000 spines as she shrilled her desire to avenge all men. Giacomo Lauri-Volpi was a loud, adequately heroic Calaf. But there were none of those sweet, curving melodies for either of them to sing, no tender suavities to linger over and fondle. Choruses here and there excelled the earlier Puccini's, but the score as a whole seemed thick, noisy, lacking...
...Vestale, they announced at the bidding of him who held the strings, will open the season on the evening of Nov. 1. Rosa Ponselle will be the lovely Vestal to abandon the sacred fire for an earthly lover; Tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, the Warrior who dares to violate the sanctity of the Temple; Basso Ezio Pinza the Pontiff Maximus brought by the infuriated mob to condemn the guilty priestess to a living death. He will strip her of her white robe, leave it on the altar and cover her with a black one, blacker than any sin. Margarete Matzenauer will...
Minister of Interior Luigi Federzoni, famed henchman of the Vatican (TIME, July 12), presented for the Cabinet's approval last week, a decree nearly as drastic as the deflation measure sponsored by Finance Minister Count Volpi...
Economists, not so sanguine, shook their heads. They recalled the bitter fight waged to restore the pound to par ($4.86) though it never sank below $3.37. Before Premier Mussolini and Count Volpi the task looms of raising to 19c odd, a coin now worth less than 4c. The "deflation pains" of Italy seem likely to prove keen...