Paese
—  Comune  —
Comune di Paese
Paese Location of Paese in Italy
Coordinates: 45°40′N 12°9′E / 45.667°N 12.15°E / 45.667; 12.15Coordinates: 45°40′N 12°9′E / 45.667°N 12.15°E / 45.667; 12.15
Country	Italy
Region	Veneto
Province	Province of Treviso (TV)
Frazioni	Castagnole, Padernello, Porcellengo, Postioma
Area
• Total	38.0 km2 (14.7 sq mi)
Highest elevation	73 m (240 ft)
Lowest elevation	12 m (39 ft)
Population (December 2004)
• Total	19,898
• Density	520/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
Postal code	31038
Dialing code	0422
Website	Official website

Paese is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Treviso in the Italian region Veneto, located about 30 km northwest of Venice and about 8 km west of Treviso. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 19,898 and an area of 38.0 km².^[1]

Geography[link]

The municipality of Paese contains the frazioni (subdivisions, mainly villages and hamlets) of Castagnole, Padernello, Porcellengo and Postioma.

Paese borders the following municipalities: Istrana, Morgano, Ponzano Veneto, Quinto di Treviso, Trevignano, Treviso, Volpago del Montello.

The people of Paese speak both Italian and dialetto veneto (the dialect of the Veneto region).

Demographic evolution[link]

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References[link]

External links[link]

Media related to Paese at Wikimedia Commons

• (Italian) Paese official website

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Corrado Guzzanti
Born	May 17, 1965 Rome
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Actor, director, writer and satirist

Guzzanti and the cast of Fascisti su marte.

Corrado Guzzanti (born May 17, 1965) is an Italian actor, director, writer and satirist. He has been described as "the most interesting satirical author and actor today"^[1] and "among the comedians best loved by the Italian public."^[2]

Biography[link]

Born in Rome, he is the son of journalist and Senator Paolo Guzzanti, great-nephew of former Minister of Health Elio Guzzanti, and brother of Sabina and Caterina, both also Italian television personalities and satirical actresses.

After beginning his career as writer for his sister Sabina, he debuted with roles for himself in Avanzi, hosted by Serena Dandini, with whom he collaborated in almost all his subsequent TV shows. These include Tunnel, Maddecheaò, Pippo Chennedy Show and L'ottavo nano.

He is famous for his corrosive imitations of Italian politicians and personalities: an incomplete list include Emilio Fede, Antonello Venditti, Francesco Rutelli, Romano Prodi, Fausto Bertinotti, Gianfranco Funari, Gianni Baget Bozzo, Giulio Tremonti and many others. He has also notoriously sent up Berlusconi's lauding of "freedom," which he and other critics of the Prime Minister view cynically, in a sketch in which he urinated on a couch.^[3][4]

Guzzanti has also created characters of his own, including avantgarde cinema director Rokko Smithersons (who appeared more like a leather-clad biker); Quelo, a comedic version of a new age guru with a number of catchphrases; Vulvia, the linkwoman of the Discovery Channel-like Re-Educational Channel; Lorenzo, a spoof of the "typical" late 1980s teenager, obsessed with Mtv, heavy metal, playing football and getting stoned; and the poet Brunello Robertetti, a satire of a typical Italian selfish and pseudo-profound intellectual. His latest character is Don Florestano Pizzarro, a powerful priest, in 2008.

In 2006 he debuted as movie director with Fascisti su Marte ("Fascists on Mars"), which features an anachronistic and heavily satirical plot about a group of Fascist militiamen attempting to colonize Mars (the red Bolshevik planet) during the Fascist era.

References[link]

External links[link]

Media related to Corrado Guzzanti at Wikimedia Commons

• Homepage (Currently offline)
• Fascisti su Marte at the Internet Movie Database

Giuseppe Di Stefano (24 July 1921 – 3 March 2008) was an Italian operatic tenor who sang professionally from the late 1940s until the early 1990s. He was known as the "Golden voice" or "The most beautiful voice", as the true successor of Beniamino Gigli. He was also known for his long-term performance and recording association and brief romantic episode with the soprano Maria Callas.

Biography[link]

Giuseppe di Stefano was born in Motta Sant'Anastasia, a village near Catania, Sicily. He was the only son of a carabiniere turned cobbler and his dressmaker wife. Di Stefano was educated at a Jesuit seminary and briefly contemplated entering the priesthood.

After serving in the Italian military (and briefly taking lessons from the Swiss tenor Hugues Cuénod), di Stefano made his operatic debut in 1946 in Reggio Emilia as Des Grieux in Massenet's Manon, the role in which he made his La Scala debut the following year. The great beauty of his lyric tenor voice quickly won him international attention and he was duly engaged by the Metropolitan Opera in New York. He made his New York debut in 1948 as the Duke of Mantua in Verdi's Rigoletto. He went on to perform regularly in New York for many years. In 1957, di Stefano made his British debut at the Edinburgh Festival as Nemorino in L'Elisir d'Amore and his Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, debut in 1961, as Cavaradossi in Tosca.

As a singer, di Stefano was admired for his excellent diction, unique timbre, passionate delivery and, in particular, for the sweetness of his soft singing. In his Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast debut in Faust, he attacked the high C forte and then softened to a pianissimo. Sir Rudolf Bing said in his memoirs that this was the most beautiful sound he had heard come out of a human throat during his many years as general manager of the Metropolitan Opera.

During his years of international celebrity, di Stefano won a gold Orfeo, an Italian musical award similar to America's Oscar.^[1]

In 1953 Walter Legge, leader of EMI's classical wing, wanted a tenor to record all the popular Italian operas with Maria Callas and chose Giuseppe di Stefano. Among their recording achievements was the famous 1953 studio recording of Tosca under de Sabata, considered by many as the finest opera recording ever made. The two also performed together on stage frequently, from 1951 in South America to the end of 1957 in Un Ballo in Maschera at La Scala, the last time the two collaborated in an opera. He sang Alfredo to Callas in the famous Visconti production of "La Traviata" in 1955 at La Scala, as well as Edgardo to her Lucia under Herbert von Karajan at La Scala, Berlin and Vienna.

In 1973, Giuseppe Di Stefano accompanied Maria Callas on her final recital tour that ended in 1974: critics remarked that both were losing their voices, but the public reaction was enthusiastic everywhere. It was during this period the two had a brief romantic relationship. Di Stefano's final operatic role was as the aged Emperor in Turandot, in July 1992.

In a documentary aired on PBS entitled Pavarotti and the Italian Tenor, a critic remarked that "di Stefano's [singing] technique was not good", due to the fact that he apparently misused the passagio of his voice. Luciano Pavarotti said he modeled himself after di Stefano, a fact that gained much attention after Pavarotti's death in September 2007. He was also the tenor who most inspired José Carreras.^[2] However, on the 1992 PBS television program "Pavarotti and the Italian Tenor",^[3] Leone Magiera explained that di Stefano's technique was fundamentally flawed because, contrary to traditional vocal methods, he sang too openly in and above the passaggio. Incidentally di Stefano, for all his vocal merits, could not read musical notation fluently. Nonetheless, di Stefano still managed to enjoy a significant operatic career, despite facing stiff competition during the 1950s and '60s from such outstanding fellow tenors as Mario del Monaco, Franco Corelli, Carlo Bergonzi, Nicolai Gedda, Jon Vickers, Richard Tucker and, prior to 1960, the short-lived Jussi Björling.

Recordings with Maria Callas[link]

Di Stefano sang the tenor leads in several of the most famous recordings of Maria Callas, all of which were for EMI. Together they recorded the following complete operas:

• Lucia di Lammermoor – 1953
• I Puritani – 1953
• Cavalleria Rusticana – 1953
• Tosca – 1953
• I Pagliacci – 1954
• Rigoletto – 1955
• La Traviata – 1955
• Il Trovatore – 1956
• La Bohème – 1956
• Un Ballo in Maschera – 1956
• Manon Lescaut – 1957

A series of duets with Giuseppe di Stefano and Maria Callas was recorded by the Philips label in the period November–December 1973 with Antonio de Almeida conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. These recordings unfortunately were not published officially but a 'pirate' version did appear.

Other recordings[link]

Besides his recordings with Callas, he also made complete EMI sets of Madama Butterfly (opposite Victoria de los Ángeles, 1954) and La Traviata (with Antonietta Stella and Tito Gobbi, 1955).

For English Decca he recorded L'Elisir d'Amore with Hilde Güden and Fernando Corena (1955), La Gioconda (with Zinka Milanov and Leonard Warren, 1957), La Forza del Destino (1958) and a second Tosca (with Leontyne Price and Giuseppe Taddei, Herbert von Karajan conducting, 1962).

For Ricordi (Ricordi MRO 104/105), he made a complete stereo Lucia di Lammermoor with Renata Scotto, Ettore Bastianini and Ivo Vinco in 1958, with Nino Sanzogno conducting the Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan.

In 1995, VAI issued an approved version of La Bohème, from a 1959 performance in New Orleans, with the tenor starring opposite Licia Albanese, Audrey Schuh, Giuseppe Valdengo and Norman Treigle. Additionally, in 1962 the tenor recorded excerpts from Massenet's Manon, with Anna Moffo, conducted by René Leibowitz.

In 1951, di Stefano sang in a performance of Verdi's Requiem, at Carnegie Hall, conducted by Arturo Toscanini, the other soloists being Herva Nelli, Fedora Barbieri and Cesare Siepi. It was released by RCA.

Diani Beach incident and subsequent death[link]

In November 2004, Giuseppe Di Stefano was critically injured in his home in Diani Beach, Kenya, after a brutal beating by unknown assailants.^[1][4] Di Stefano was ambushed in his car with his wife, Monika Curth, as they prepared to drive from their villa in Diani, a coastal resort near Mombasa on the Indian Ocean. The singer was still unconscious a week after the attack and was fed intravenously, and underwent several operations.

In December 2007, Di Stefano was flown to the San Raffaele clinic at Milan, where he slipped into a coma.^[5] He died in his home in Santa Maria Hoè near Milan on 3 March 2008, aged 86.^[4]

References[link]

• The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, by John Warrack and Ewan West (1992), 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5

External links[link]

Biography portal

• Giuseppe Di Stefano at Find a Grave
• Alan Blyth Obituary: Opera singer Giuseppe di Stefano, 1921–2008 The Guardian 3 March 2008
• History of the Tenor – Sound Clips and Narration