Word: ermanno
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...Fiancés, the second movie made by a 32-year-old Italian named Ermanno Olmi, will probably become a cinema classic. Director Olmi tells an almost too simple story of how absence makes two hearts grow fonder, but he tells it with total mastery of his means...
...Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948) was a 20th Century composer with 18th Century ambitions. In most of his 13 operas (best known: The Jewels of the Madonna, Secret of Suzanne), he aimed for classic form and comic elegance. At his best, he came close to being the poor man's Mozart; at his broadest, a kind of roughhewn Rossini. Last week he was Manhattan's newest opera...
...Died. Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, 72, heavyweight Italian composer of lightweight opera (The Jewels of the Madonna, The Secret of Susanne); of a heart ailment; in Venice. He enlivened dying operatic formulas, made a great success of putting many old styles to a few new uses...
Parisians were as interested in La Scala's guest conductor as in its standout singers. The conductor was slight, thirtyish Manno Wolf-Ferrari, nephew of one of Italy's last surviving big-name operatic composers, Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (The Jewels of the Madonna, The Secret of Susanne...
Pleased by his Paris success, Manno is even more excited by the treat he has in store for his 71-year-old uncle, with whom he lives in Venice. In Naples next fall, Manno hopes to conduct the first Italian performance in more than 20 years of Uncle Ermanno's The Jewels of the Madonna. Mussolini had banned it because, he said, its story of Neopolitan hoodlumism gave Italy a bad name...