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...Maometto (Justino Diaz), are hammering at the gates. Sills plays Pamira, the daughter of Cleomene (Harry Theyard), the governor of Corinth. Beverly, who talks as fast as she trills, narrates the plot in a style redolent of both Anna Russell and Rhoda Morgenstern: "It's very similar to Aida. The only difference being that my lover is a girl. Well, I mean to say, the part is played by a girl. Actually, the one that I really love is not a tenor. It happens to be the bass, Maometto the terrible Turk. Neo-cle, who is from my country...
...bald really beautiful? Indeed it is -at least in the eyes of a bevy of female beholders. "Bald men seem more intelligent," says Mrs. Jake Garn. Says Soprano Beverly Sills: "There's no doubt they're very sexy." Agrees California Beauty Salon Entrepreneur Aida Grey: "A bald-headed man is very exciting." About eight months ago, in fact, Grey became aware of the new trend (particularly, she notes, among attorneys) and developed a special wax treatment that removes any remnant fringe...
What next for Opera/South? Following its interest in the classics (Aida, Turandot and Otello have already been produced), the company will stage The Flying Dutchman in the spring. Looking ahead to the 1976 Bicentennial, the company has commissioned a new opera from Black Composer Ulysses Kay. It will be based on the Civil War novel Jubilee, by Mississippi's Margaret Walker. With all that in the works, General Manager Dolores Ardoyno has only one other wish: "I really would love it if other opera companies would have the initiative at least to take a look at Billy Still...
...Paul season ranges from a Carmen in French to a Siegfried in English. Last week the company offered the American premiere of Engagement in San Domingo by Germany's Werner Egk, 73, whose music tends to be grandiose and wildly varied. Engagement is a kind of Caribbean Aida set in what is now Haiti during the black natives' overthrow of the French colonists at the turn of the 19th century. The heroine is the mulatto Jeanne, who falls in love with the French officer Christoph, though her revolutionist mother Bobokan is plotting his death. At the end, Jeanne...
Francois would not hurt anyone. He cried one whole afternoon when Aida, our dog, was killed. His tears ran in zig zags down his crooked little face. But fear and anger mean war, for him, and war means airplanes and bombs and tanks and a volcano of fire...