Word: assoluta
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...sing a major role in the house since Marian Anderson broke the color line six years earlier. In such dramatic soprano roles as Tosca, Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni and Verdi's other Leonora, in La Forza del Destino, Price established herself as a prima donna assoluta, and in her greatest roles--Aida and the two Leonoras--there was no one better...
...Covent Garden, Dame Margot Fonteyn plucked a single long-stemmed red rose from one of her many bouquets and with a deep curtsy presented it to her young partner-ex-Kirov Ballet Danseur Rudolf Nureev. The young Russian lowered his eyes, sank to his knees and kissed the assoluta's hand. The audience exploded in an ovation that lasted through 23 curtain calls...
...dominant personality trait is the willingness to gamble. Ballerina Assoluta Natalia Makarova, who now makes about $300,000 a year from her dancing, took a great risk in defecting from the Kirov Ballet to perform in the alien world of Western ballet. But then Natasha, 36, has always been supremely confident of her talent. Recalling an old Russian proverb, she observes: "It is bad soldier who does not expect to be general...
Star Policy. Cynthia Gregory quitting dance? Rudolf Nureyev has called her America's prima ballerina assoluta. At 29, she is one of the most admired dancers of the present generation in the U.S.-or anywhere else. Inevitably, many dance enthusiasts wondered whether her sudden exit might be the beginning of a mass exodus that could cripple A.B.T...
Elizabeth Ashley left the New York stage slightly over a decade ago as a lovely ingenue. She returns, still ravishingly beautiful, as an actress assoluta. Her Maggie the Cat is sensuous, wily, febrile, gallant, and scorchingly Southern...