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...Last year Giacomo Cattaneo Adorno, a descendant of those Durazzos, and his wife Emanuela opened the splendid Palazzo Durazzo in Genoa, which has established itself as one of the best new hotels in Italy....
...Maria Shollenbarger was a guest of Palazzo Durazzo...
...But Attilio Glaser is reedy and ineffectual as Adorno, and even Maria Motolygina’s pure yet creamily wide and open vocal range in the role of Amelia cannot quite rescue the evening from its own mundanity...
...silhouette of a fallen tree, this bench is available in two sizes and an assortment of colours. deadgoodltd.co.uk ‘Marquesa’ by Oscar Niemeyer, £15,310 Designed in 1974 by Niemeyer and his daughter Anna Maria...
...As Gabriele Adorno, Maria’s eventual husband, the tenor Charles Castronovo continues his successful move into heavier roles, singing with burnished, ringing tone and dramatic involvement....
...Francesco Demuro is a less complex character as Adorno, required simply to be the heroic young lover, a role he fills to perfection....
...In one of the collection’s satisfying essays about California he takes a trip to Adorno’s house in LA and quotes the German philosopher’s definition of art: “magic delivered from the lie of being truth”....
...For Iceland, Christoph Büchel transforms the disused church Santa Maria della Misericordia into a simulated yet actual environment, “The Mosque” — Venice has never had one — welcomed by the city’s Muslim...
...Francesco Meli’s no-holds-barred Adorno who takes the evening’s vocal honours....
...Stefano Secco (Adorno) can do the crowd- pleasing tenor squillo but throws in too much vulgarity and Ana Maria Martinez’s lovely voice never quite seems on top of Maria’s music....
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