Word: rigoletto
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...libretto was a piece of hack work from a Parisian scenario factory run by an enterprising auteur of sorts named Eugene Scribe. Having just successfully completed Rigoletto and La Traviata with Italian Librettist Francesco Maria Piave, Verdi despised the messy French text with the passion he brought to everything...
...neglecting motives and character, and building a buffer of mystery between individuals. In a little Italian village, the son of a local hero of the opposition to Mussolini returns seeking the murderer of his father. Like Lincoln, the hero was shot in a local theater--during a performance of Rigoletto. Like Macbeth, he had been warned by gypsies of his impending death. Like Caesar, he was found to have on his dead body an unopened letter with the same prophecy--previously handed to him by a mysterious man on a motorcycle. His is the epitome of the deaths...
Died. Eugene Berman, 73, Russian-born painter who led the neoromantic movement in Paris during the '20s but found his real forte three decades later as a designer of lush sets for New York's Metropolitan Opera (Rigoletto, The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni) and the opera stages of Europe; in Rome...
...sales-proven "greatest hits" garb. For in this 40-minute collection of piano transcriptions by the granddaddy of all transcribers, Bolet has come up with what will surely be one of the piano records of the year. Liszt's Reminiscences of Lucia di Lammermoor or Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto requires a fusion of talents comparable to those of an expert novelist who is also a master of the sonnet. Bolet's combination of intricate line and bold sweep is just such a fusion...
Acting with the voice is a theme that runs through her talk like a Wagnerian leitmotif'. After listening to a coloratura sing Caro Nome from Rigoletto, Callas remarked: "Give it more freedom. You have to be a girl who is passionately in love. True, Gilda is still a virgin, but one should not be too cutesy, because of what happens to her later. Don't forget, she sacrifices her life for love...