Word: bel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...automatic move to Hollywood and the purchase of a mansion in Beverly Hills. But more recently the traffic has been the other way. Stars who made their pile more often than not move to Paris, Rome or the Swiss Alps. Their children, who once might have gone to the Bel Air Town and Country School, now go to the International School in Geneva...
...years after its debut in 1823 Semiramide was considered Rossini's crowning triumph. Written at fever pitch in just 33 days, it shines with bel canto flourishes-fluid melodies, runs, cadenzas, arpeggios-and a soprano role that is one of the most difficult in all opera. "Semiramide," says La Scala's artistic director. "is Norma's grandmother." Much of the dramatic singing is in the most difficult vocal range, and the coloratura passages are burdened with drama. With the coloratura parts too dramatic and the dramatic parts too coloratura, it is simply too difficult; Paris...
...Good Life. The son of a Manhattan real estate man, Wolper now lives quietly and richly in the canyoned subtropics of Los Angeles' Bel Air. where real estate is so expensive that a single sunbather can cover $2,000 worth of land...
...More, played by Emlyn Williams. There is fresh comedy in the conformist cry for nonconformity as raised by A Thousand Clowns. As a nonworking anti-square, Jason Robards Jr. is supported by a prize cast of plodballs. Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary is baited with laughs, and Barbara Bel Geddes hooks every one, as this fun-fest nears the 700-performance mark...
...faith of Sir Thomas More, who chose to lose his life rather than his soul. Emlyn Williams portrays the hero-martyr. A Thousand Clowns, freshly and resourcefully comic, stars Jason Robards Jr. as a man who tries to grope his way out of groupthink toward the good life. Barbara Bel Geddes delivers Jean Kerr's subcutaneous witticisms with flair in long-running Mary, Mary...