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09/01/2009

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Sabadin, Vittorio

3 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.

La Stampa - Italy | 20/05/2008

An important opening of boundaries

"We are still far from being able to breed mythological creatures like the minotaur, the sphinx or the chimera. Researchers are sticking to the field of cytoplasm and have no plans for combining human and animal DNA in stem cells. Yet the voices of those who fear scientists could lose control over their hybrid creations, as doctor Frankenstein did, are growing louder. In truth, Westminster's vote yesterday was an important step in opening the boundaries of science which will help counter the lack of human embryos available for research and the ethical problems bound up with their use. ... The number of egg cells needed for a series of experiments is extremely high, and the only alternative to creating hybrid cells would be to subject women to hormone treatment on a massive scale so they produce thousands of egg cells."

La Stampa - Italy | 20/03/2008

Vittorio Sabadin analyses the tranformation of social classes

Italian journalist and writer Vittorio Sabadin analyses the changes that have taken place in Western societies since the 19th Century. "The social classes as they are described by Karl Marx and Max Weber don't exist anymore, and it's no longer money that makes the difference. To classify individuals, it's taste, attitudes and education that count the most. In our Western societies, the hope for a single prosperous middle class disappears in the economic crisis. It takes away the amount of resources available to those in the middle of the ladder, and pulls them irrevocably downwards. ... The destruction of class doesn't only affect the middle classes. The working class works harder and harder in India and China and less and less in Europe."

La Stampa - Italy | 06/12/2006

Alessandro Barrico's vision of 'The Enchanted Flute'

The Italian writer Alessandro Baricco has rewritten a comic and modern version of Mozart's 'Enchanted Flute' recitatives that date back to the end of the 18th century. This new version, which will be presented in Turin next December 12th, is already much talked about in the press. The journalist and writer Vittorio Sabadini considers that Baricco has taken a very big risk. "As always, it will be up to the public to decide, no judgement can be mad before seeing the show. But the version of Mozart's Magic Flute that is going to be presented in Turin cannot avoid stirring up gossip and slander. The author should be more present in order to explain situations that are unclear and, it has to be said, leave people a little perplexed. It could not be otherwise in view of the novelty introduced by Baricco, who is well aware of the risk taken by whoever seeks to innovate in operas considered by the public to be sacred and inviolable".

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