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Save
Venice held its annual five-day gala in Venice
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Inside
the newly restored La Fenice Theater for That
evening there was a concert performed by the Venice Baroque
Orchestra
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last three days of August and the first two of September, Save
Venice held its annual five-day
gala in Venice with more than two hundred supporters enjoying the festivities.
Beatrice Santo Domingo chaired this year’s gala and Francesca
Bortolotto was International Chairman.
On a Sunday, guests picked up their gala packets and their treasure
hunts in the lobby of the Bauer Hotel. This year’s hunt was
created by Michael LaPlaca and underwritten by The Arthur
Loeb Foundation. The quest kept participants busy throughout the week.
That evening cocktails were held at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
hosted by Director Philip Rylands and given by Save Venice board
member Elizabeth Locke and her husband John
Staelin. Young Friends
of Venice enjoyed a pasta dinner at the home of Toto Bergamo in
honor of the new President of Save Venice Beatrice Rossi-Landi.
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Cocktails
at The Guggenheim
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Ryan
Gordon, Merrill Hanley, and John Royall
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Dr.
Philip Rylands, Elizabeth locke, and John Staelin with
friends (left)
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Brenda
Mickel, Ned Mobley, and Jeffrey Quinn
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L.
to r.: Howard and Helen Johnson with George and Betsy
White; Mary and
Howard Frank; Bob Maier and Mary Louise Parker.
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Monday there were walking tours and afternoon palace visits. Benetton
sponsored evening cocktails at the newly restored Teatro Ridotto
salons in the Hotel Monaco.
Afterwards, Beatrice and
Julio Santo Domingo offered a festive dinner in the
Hotel Cipriani’s
Granai.
Pictured right: Julia
Mario and Beatriz Santo Domingo. |
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Bea
Esteve and Georgie Abreu
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Marie
Kluth, Natasha Monahan, and Rene Singh
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Mary
and Norton Belknap
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| Tuesday
there were lectures at the Cini Foundation. John
Julius Norwich spoke on English writers in 19th
century Venice. Princeton professor Ted Rabb discussed The
Risorgimento in Italy and Venice. Afterwards there was a luncheon given by Laurel
and Walter Karabian of the California Chapter of Save Venice at the San Lazzaro
monastery on the Island of the Armenians. That evening there was
a concert at the Teatro La Fenice, underwritten by the Francena
T. Harrison Foundation Trust and performed by the Venice Baroque Orchestra. |
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L.
to r.: Lunch at at
the San Lazzaro monastery with
Walter Karabian, Bob Guthrie, and Laurel
Karabian; Nicolas Sitinas and Michelle Gunter and Celso
Gonzalez-Falla and Sondra Gilman outside Teatro La Fenice.
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Wednesday, the group traveled to Udine to see the early Tiepolo frescoes in the Archbishops’ Palace.
A luncheon was held in the Firiulian countryside at the Villa Gallici
by Count
Luigi and Countess Pisana Deciani, with the meal provided by Michelin
one-star restaurant Agli Amici and its chef, Emanuele Scarello. |
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L.
to r.: Villa Gallici in Udine; Henk and Betty Schep
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Thursday there were two lectures at the Granai. Professor Rosella
Zorzi spoke on American Expatriates
in 19th Century
Venice and Sonia Evers spoke on Venetian
Art in the Nineteenth Century: from Scandal to Scandal. Cipriani prepared three simultaneous
buffet luncheons in their gardens. This was given by Shirley
and Jim Sherwood – he a Save Venice board member. It was during
the lunch that the names of those who had completed the Treasure
Hunt were put in a bowl and the winners were drawn by Regina
Resnik and Marco Croze. Guy Robinson won first prize, Bob
Lovejoy the second,
and third went to Sandra Ourosoff. Missiaglia, the famous jeweler
on Piazza San Marco and its owners, the Croze family has been generously
contributing the prizes for eight successive galas. This year’s
prizes were jeweled phoenixes, symbols of the reborn Teatro La Fenice. |
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Cipriani
luncheon, hosted by Jim and Shirley Sherwood
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L.
to r.: Libby and David Horn with Dick and Jill Almeida;
Regina Resnik, Bob Lovejoy, and Marco Croze.
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Thursday evening, there were cocktails and a tour at Ca’Pesaro, Venice’s museum of modern
art. Then came a candle-lit dinner and dancing to the Jazz Band
of the Fenice Orchestra
at Palazzo Pisani Moretta. Board member Sidney Stires played the
piano. Giampaolo Seguso of Seguso Viro on Murano once again generously
contributed beautiful Murano glass party favors and the gala was
concluded until everyone meets again in Venice for Carnevale in 2006. |
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Sally
Perrin
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Allison
Drescher
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Annie
and John Fiorilla
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Donald
and Ana Clemencia Fox
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Cynthia
and Leon Polsky
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John
and Annie Fiorilla with Marta and Alberto Nardi
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L.
to r.: Beatrice Rossi Landi and Michelle Gunter;
Mary and Howard Frank and guests.
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| Photographs
by Mary Hilliard |
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