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PLAYWRIGHT Luigi Pirandello shattered the stage conventions of an era with his 1921 masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author. He held up the magic mirror of theatre to theatre itself, thus reversing Shakespeare's dictum that "all the world's a stage." Pirandello's six characters broke down the barriers separating art from ordinary life and, in the process, exposed the inadequacies of both...
...DIED. Luigi Barzini, 75, Italian journalist, author and politician; of lung cancer; in Rome. The urbane, elegant Barzini was best known for The Italians (1964) and The Europeans (1983), which solidified his reputation as a self-styled interpreter of America for Italians and Italy for Americans...
...gave birth to bel canto, and is the homeland of Rossini, Bellini and Verdi. Yet the effervescent melodic line that began with Monteverdi during the Renaissance exhausted itself with the death of Giacomo Puccini in 1924, and has been only fitfully revived by such contemporary figures as the late Luigi Dallapiccola. There is, it seems, a lost generation of Italian opera composers. But what happened to them...
...scientists had high praise for the ingenuity shown by the men in orbit, like Mission Specialist Robert Parker, whose deft use of a sleeping bag provided a cover of darkness while he reloaded a jammed spool of film. Said one Houston observer, University of Naples Physicist Luigi Napolitano: "You know, without those guys, the mission would have been a failure on the first day." The astronauts also found time to clown for the TV cameras and take telephone calls from President Reagan and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. But some problems simply had to be endured, like the accumulation...
...will present two productions in Los Angeles, a revival of Richard Brinkley Sheridan's the School for Scandal, directed by Jonathan Miller, and Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author which will be directed by Andrei Serban, Scandal was the last presentation of the 1982-83 season, while Six Characters will be performed this...