Word: maurizio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sometimes, alas, it is business as usual. This year's season opener, Giacomo Meyerbeer's hoary grand opera L'Africaine, typifies the ills that have afflicted the company. As Vasco da Gama, Tenor Placido Domingo sounds tired and wan, Maurizio Arena's conducting is enervated and Mansouri's own stage direction merely serviceable. Only veteran Soprano Shirley Verrett, as the regal Selika, captures the fiery spirit of Meyerbeer's diffuse and improbable last opera...
...couture sophistication and peasant witchcraft, that is quite striking; one only wishes that when he carves a figure in stone, it came out looking more like sculpture and less like a shop-window dummy. Also not to be missed is a hypnotic and mysterious installation by the Roman artist Maurizio Mocchetti, in which an irregular circle of red laser light contracts and expands in the darkness on a bed of red oxide...
Giving up most of their shares in the Gucci company are the sons of Aldo, 83, the sole surviving son of the founder. A nephew of Aldo's, Maurizio Gucci, is still claiming 50% ownership in the firm, but his three cousins are contesting him in Italian court on the ground that he inherited his shares by forging his father's signature...
...DIED. Maurizio Vitale, 41, Italian clothing magnate, who outraged the Vatican in the early 1970s by pairing bulging buttocks and parodies of Christian teachings in ads for his Jesus Jeans; of AIDS; in Turin, Italy. Never publicity shy, Vitale followed up a $100 million 1979 jeans-and-jacket sale to the Soviet Union by becoming official supplier of off-track uniforms to the 1984 U.S. Olympic team...
...Maurizio Cardano, a city councilman in Naples, where housing is in such short supply that many newlyweds have to live with their parents, had an idea. Why not set aside a few acres of police-protected parkland overlooking the Bay of Naples as a giardino dell'eros, or love garden, where young couples could park their cars and safely enjoy a bit of privacy? But Cardano's suggestion has drawn a storm of protest, especially from the Roman Catholic Church. A Catholic weekly grumbled that it would "legitimize fornication and extramarital adventures." Corrado Cardinal Ursi told a crowd...