Word: amours
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Angel-voiced Soprano Milanov, as Chénier's aristocratic amour, and archangel-voiced Baritone Warren, as a servant turned revolutionary, helped make the Met's Chenier a solid success, but the hit of the evening was Tenor Mario Del Monaco, in the powerful title role. When his time came, he stood back, heaved an enormous breath, spread his arms and let fly with a stunning high B flat that he held until it began to sound as if a phonograph needle was stuck in the groove...
That did it. Communists set up a whoop & holler; one Red Deputy wanted to settle affairs with Deixonne in the corridor. Others challenged his facts. The truth is that the now ailing Thorez lived for years in unsanctified amour with frowsy-haired Communist Deputy Jeannette Vermeersch and fathered her three children, but he and Jeannette are understood to have been quietly married...
...Reactionary. French nightclub singers, much easier to remember than French premiers, are possibly better guides to their country's history. There was Lucienne Boyer, who had her heyday in the uncertain years between the wars, a trim but still sizable singer who put across Parlez-Moi d'Amour as if Paris and amour had not changed since the golden nineties (although one line in the song admitted: "Actually, I don't believe any of it"). Then came Edith Piaf, so thin that she was barely visible through the nightclub smoke, with an occasional sentimental number...
...little later and makes such a pretty leg that the fickle fair forgets all about Robert, who takes, in his turn, to the consolations of religion. Soon, though, it's dash away all to the Holy Land, and the drums of war drown out the viole d'amour...
Poulenc: Les Biches (Paris Conservatory Orchestra conducted by Roger Désormière; London). Impudent musical commentary on I'amour, composed for a ballet by one of France's gayest composers. Superbly played...