storico-topo-panoramiche !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"Nel farmi lo schizzo poi del panorama, voleva che si vedesse il corso del Tevere passare fra San Pietro e il castello! Io gli ho detto che il flumen passava dall’altra parte, sotto, e lui tranquillo come un pesce ha detto: «Oh questo è niente!». Bel tipo, tutta vita, fuoco e pieno di inesattezze storico-topo-panoramiche."
Puccini a Giulio Ricordi nel 1899
pelis
TODO, TODO, TODO
la pazza per amore
see 'interior of the argentina theater' by giovanni paolo pannini /"...opera is after all an anachronistic performance art, set in a museum context and patronized by a convention-loving public almost as exclusive as the aristocracy for which it was first created..."
Philip Brett
"... while the heartbeats quickened i set myself to watch the stage, which in somewhat rudimentary fashion, was intended to depict a garden: papier-mâché trees and bushes scattered here and there, in one corner some form of temple or pavilion in corinthian style, and a great dark backdrop to simulate the night sky, in which a white circle, through which rays of lamplight weakly shone, did duty for the moon..."
floria tosca / the diary of baron scarpia
paola capriolo
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