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Speaking of opera, following our interview with Mark DuBois, much of whose life has been spent singing opera, there was, once upon a time, fabulous annual Opera Festival held in a strange place in Tuscany. I may have mentioned this place before in passing, as an extremely important and pleasant several months of my life but a book about it, called A Heap of Stones by Adam Pollock, has come out and I need a break from ranting at you.
Our life in Batignano really began when Ernest and I were working for the Canadian Opera Company, back stage, building the sets for the upcoming opera and finishing props. This was all happening under the demanding eye of Adam Pollock, a British designer, a youngish man of tremendous energy who found our parochial Toronto strangely old fashion and very dull. However, we seemed to connect with him and told him about our plans to travel to Europe for an unscheduled length of time, a little later that year.
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Sunday, 25 Apr 2021 05:46 PM MYT
‘The Belvedere Torso’, a Roman marble figure from the first century BC. AFP pic
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ROME, April 25 The Belvedere Torso inspired Michelangelo but is often ignored by visitors rushing to the Sistine Chapel, an oversight the Vatican Museums hope to resolve with a new video series launched Tuesday.
The Torso, a fragmentary Greek marble statue more than 2,000 years old, is the subject of the first of 12 monthly videos designed to showcase the “secrets, little-known stories and curiosities” hidden among the papal collections.