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...strode Orpheus, a fine, sturdy figure of a man, wearing a beige and green costume, and carrying a gilded lyre. In the orchestra the noble trombones swelled to the point where Orpheus would sing of his decision to seek Eurydice in Hades. Four thousand guests at France's Aix-les-Bains music festival, including Italy's ex-King Umberto and ex-Queen Marie José, leaned forward. The hero was about to make his impassioned plea: "Give her back to me, you powers of Hell!" Instead, the audience heard his hoarse shout in Italian-accented French:"I refuse...
There was no more opera that night in Aix-les-Bains. Later, the festival management issued an angry statement: the performance at which Baritone Valdengo balked was a retake for television kinescope, for which the rest of the company had readily agreed to perform free. Moreover, it was Monsieur Valdengo's fault in the first place: he did not know his part (he had pinned a copy of his score to his lyre), and had improvised to the point of making the retake necessary...
...Pianist Artur Rubinstein. Doing the festival rounds even faster than the fleetest-footed music tourist will be a gaggle of other big-name artists. The speed and distance record probably goes to famed German Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who will dash between Scandinavia (Helsinki, Bergen), Switzerland (Lucerne), Belgium (Ostend), France (Aix and Besanqon) and Spain (Granada). Almost as agile will be the U.S.'s own great Philadelphia Orchestra, whose stops will include Lugano, Vienna, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Stockholm, Helsinki...
...Aix-en-Provence, France, already a center for painters, added music...
...army of tourists Europe has some outstanding attractions in addition to such old standbys as Notre Dame Cathedral, the Eiffel Tower (1,301,152 visitors last year), the Prades Music Festival (July 2-20). France has the Paris International Trade Fair (May 14-30), an international dance festival at Aix-les-Bains (July 23-Aug. 7). Italy offers the International Music Festival at Taormina (June 1-10), the Turin Sports Exhibition (May 2 5-June 19), Rome's Feast of St. Peter (June 29), Florence's May music festival, the Venice Regatta (Sept. 4), lavish, outdoor opera...