PARMA, ITALY -- When he was nearly 80, Verdi's brought his long opera career to an incandescent conclusion with the ''lyric comedy'' ''Falstaff.'' And it broke important new ground. Apart from isolated examples, such as Fra Melitone, the humorous cleric in ''La Forza del Destino,'' and bits of ''Un Ballo in Maschera,'' his comic muse had not been...
FROM a practical point of view, ''The Charterhouse of Parma'' makes a lousy guidebook. An ardent fan of all things Italian, and a brilliant, impressionistic travel writer, Stendhal could have bequeathed to the ages an unforgettable prose portrait of Parma, the small, sleepy, provincial northern Italian city where most of the action of his great...
IN SHIFTING CAREERS, a panel of career coaches and advisers answer reader questions at nytimes.com/smallbusiness. Business Briefing Articles on these developments are at nytimes.com/business. ELECTRONIC ARTS, the world's biggest video game publisher, said it would reorganize into four units in an efficiency drive. The Electronic Arts units will...
Parma er en italiensk by i regionen Emilia-Romagna med 175.789 indbyggere pr. 31. december 2004. Byen er berømt for sin arkitektur og landskabet omkring den, samt parmaskinke.
Parma er delt i to af en mindre flod med det samme navn.