Word: ardente
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...Thais in 1923. The cowgirl with the red braided hair was Soprano Leontyne Price (TIME cover, March 10), and the opera that rang up last week's curtain was La Fanciulla del West, or The Girl of the Golden West, by that old roughrider, Giacomo Puccini. Even among ardent Puccini fans, Fanciulla is often regarded as an embarrassing mistake, and the Met has not staged it in 30 years. But last week's production was more than good enough to remind the audience that even in horse opera there is more than one tune to sing from...
...orchestra this year-there were still more hopeful omens on the second night of the season. In Mozart's Cost Fan Tutte, Connecticut's Teresa Stich-Randall made a long-overdue Metropolitan debut as Fiordiligi, displayed the purity, fullness and control that have won her ardent fans in Europe and on records. In the same opera, Negro Tenor George Shirley, 27, last year's Metropolitan Opera Auditions winner, filled in on short notice in the role of Ferrando, carried off the assignment with a handsomely rounded voice and natural dramatic flair. The Met was still suffering from...
...dealed like Cadillacs, Sheik Abdullah Al-Jabir As-Sabah, Minister of Justice and Education, finally met a woman who was his match. Six months ago. the 65-year-old sheik got his 27th divorce, this one from pretty ex-Secretary Heidi Dichter, 19. Last week, after yielding to ardent pleas from the changeable sheik, Heidi was back in the marital fold-but on terms. To lure Heidi home again, the sheik promised to pay her family back in Germany a stipend of $150 a month. And if he ever decides to shuck her again, the sheik is committed...
...Communist, Jango Goulart grinned, opened his shirt to show a Roman Catholic medal, said, "Have you ever seen a real Communist wear things like this?" He said that he was willing to forget his old goals of nationalization of private enterprise, and even backed off from Quadros' ardent wooing of Communist-bloc nations. Said Goulart: "On principle, I favor trade relations with the whole world, but I admit there have been some exaggerations recently in Brazil's foreign policies...
...Cuban did not arrive on schedule. Row on row of officials were left waiting at the Brasilia airport. When Che finally arrived without warning the next day, only a few mechanics were on hand. Quadros later put on his best blue serge to greet him, and give him an ardent reception, along with Brazil's highest award for foreigners, the order of the Cruzeiro...