#dramatic encounter

The sexual tension in this field is thicker than the smoke from that man’s pipe. We have a classic 1960s "Cosmo" drama: a woman caught between a man in a sensible flat cap and a mysterious fence-leaner who clearly has a lot of opinions about pasture management. It’s the visual equivalent of a paperback romance novel where everyone is brooding, but no one is actually talking to each other.

MILAN | La Scala struck bridge scene from ‘Attila’ after Genoa

MILAN— Director Davide Livermore had envisioned a falling bridge to emphasize a dramatic encounter in Verdi’s “Attila,” which opens La Scala‘s season next week with a new production.

But the director said Friday that he changed the staging immediately after the Aug. 14 collapse of a highway bridge in Genoa that killed 43 people.

Livermore said that “unfortunately, reality overcame what would have…

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