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2020-12-03 13:35:07
Florence’s Soccer Stadium Is A Modernist Masterpiece But Badly Outdated. Preservationists And The Team Are At War.
The Artemio Franchi stadium, designed by Pier Luigi Nervi in 1930, is regularly featured in architecture textbooks and is even on a page in Italy’s passport. But the seats are uncomfortable, some of them are exposed to rain, and there’s no place for revenue-generating shops or eateries. The team’s owner, with the fans on his […]
2016-08-28 20:09:13
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: A disproportionately large number of famous Italian tenors were born during the 1920s: Franco Corelli, Mario Lanza, Giuseppe di Stefano , Carlo Bergonzi , and Sergio Franchi . But unlike the first four of these renowned gents, Sergio Franchi 1) started out on an operatic career that then veered toward the kinds of popular music heard more frequently on radio, television, Broadway, the Vegas Strip, and in chic supper clubs, and 2) had the good sense to retire late in life to Stonington, Conn.
2016-01-25 17:58:32
Sweet bird
[…] shakes a brave fist at the Baudelaire songs, can’t seem to find comfortable tempos for the songs by Verlaine and sounds flummoxed by those wonderful studies of sexual ambiguity, “Chansons de Bilitis.” She doesn’t quite know how to do: “Il me dit: les satyres sont morts…” one of the great lines in French mélodie. “Trippy” might have been the word members of a certain generation would have used to describe Moffo’s 1965 collaboration with Sergio Franchi, called The Dream Duet. Franchi was one of that legion of pop tenors described as “operatic”, although compared to say, Andrea Bocelli, he sounds like Lauritz Melchior. He was a huge name in a vanished era where the music of the people could actually be sung by a voice like his. He appeared on broadway, became a superstar in Vegas, sang for Presidents (reportedly startling John F. Kennedy with his volume in the national […]
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