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...make a brief visit to the Hamburg Opera. Heinrich turned the key on the apartment and all their possessions, next morning boarded the Hamburg Express. Last week Heinrich sat proudly in the third row of the Hannover Opera House watching his wife give a startlingly vivid performance in Alban Berg's Lulu. Coloratura Carroll's flight had ended in the beginning of a fine new career...
...RT.REV.) ALBAN BOULTWOOD, O.S.B...
...Washington last week, Archbishop Patrick A. O'Boyle of Washington solemnly carried out one of the rarer ceremonies of the Roman Catholic Church: the formal blessing of a new abbot. He gave his benediction to the Rt. Rev. Alban Boultwood, O.S.B., and handed him a copy of the Holy Rule of St. Benedict as a reminder of an abbot's responsibilities. Then, as a choir chanted the Te Deum, Abbot Boultwood formally accepted the fealty of 37 monks from St. Anselm's Abbey, the capital's only Benedictine monastery. American-born and British-educated, Father Boultwood...
...study of his 14-room house in Nyack, N.Y., and just finished in time. As curtain time approached, he was feeding the score to the singers five pages at a clip. The time is ripe for good opera, Ward believes, but he deplores the tendency-exemplified in Alban Berg's Wozzeck-to shift the dramatic emphasis from singers to orchestra. "Everything must happen in the voice," says Ward. "Opera belongs on the stage, not in the orchestra...
...Watson, 33, was one of the hits of last summer's Munich Festival, where she appeared as the Marschallin in Rosenkavalier and Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte. Brooklyn's Evelyn Lear, 31, of West Berlin's State Opera created a sensation at the Vienna Festival in Alban Berg's Lulu. Her Texas-born husband, Baritone Thomas Stewart, 31, was a surprise success as Amfortas in last summer's Parsifal at Bayreuth. Florida-born Negro Soprano Maroyne Betsch, 25, won rave reviews for her Salome with the Braunschweig Opera. In Bern, Tennessee-born Chloë Owen...