Word: aida
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan last week, the movies were making opera seductively easy to take. In Sol Hurok's Aida (see CINEMA), the young, beautiful Ethiopian slave girl really was young and beautiful (played by Italy's Sophia Loren, with the singing voice dubbed in); and while the Nile flowed realistically, the extras were dazzlingly costumed and the plot was explained in plain English. Hollywood's Carmen Jones, for its part, transformed the Seville siren into a beautiful American Negro factory girl, took the toreador from the bull into the prize ring and turned the words from Spanish-flavored French...
...Aida (Sol Hurok; I.F.E.). Italian film makers have released eight filmed operas to U.S. art houses in the past seven years. Some of them translated into fairly acceptable films. Aida, with its vivid Ferraniacolor, its monumental settings of ancient Memphis, its popular and dramatic music, its handsome acting cast and its standout (mostly invisible) singing cast, aims at being the grandest assault yet on U.S. eyes and ears...
...Eden, by Jan Meyerowitz (TIME, Jan. 30, 1950), based on the 1947 play by Dorothy Gardner. The German-born composer chose an American subject, the tragic, frustrated life of New England Poetess Emily Dickinson, but gave the frail story a pretentious treatment that would have been better suited to Aida or a Greek tragedy...
...statement released jointly by Richard S. Rosenbloom '54 of WHRB, and Aida Romanoff '54 of WRRB, the stations said that the agreement will provide for cooperative production and training efforts, but it was emphasized that the agreement in no way will curtail the stations' independent broadcasting operations...
...have been thinking about closer association for some time," said Aida Romanoff '54, Radio Radcliffe president. "While we have no specific project in mind, both WHRB and Radio Radcliffe provide much the same service to the University community. We feel that some kind of association would help improve that service...