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...largely with Americans, the Seattle Ring is not in the vocal class of Bayreuth, the Met or San Francisco. Yet Sooter gives a strong, noble account of himself, as does Baritone Julian Patrick as a robust, crafty Alberich. Soprano Johanna Meier makes a touching, feminine Sieglinde and Tenor Emile Belcourt a slick Loge. In the crucial role of Brunnhilde, Soprano Linda Kelm displays a huge voice and an enviable ease of vocal production, but she needs more refinement and a better stage presence before the part will belong to her. Presiding musically is an unlikely figure: Manuel Rosenthal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Of Carrousel Horses and Claws | 8/18/1986 | See Source »

...Singer Alfred Hancock, 46, was arrested five times in one day because of his vague resemblance to Roberts. "Why do I have to look like him?" complained Hancock. "Why can't I look like Mario Lanza?" At Sadler's Wells Theater, Tenor Emile Belcourt was singing the title role of Offenbach's Bluebeard when police broke in with growling dogs in pursuit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The Trouble with Harry | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

...John W. Ellis, has been a boys' school, and is being razed to become part of the campus of a girls' college. Ochre Court, built in 1888-91 by Ogden Goelet, is a Roman Catholic women's college. The Breakers, built by Cornelius Vanderbilt and Belcourt, the house of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, are tourist attractions; The Breakers draws some 50,000 curious trippers a year at $1.75 a head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Resorts: Housing Problem | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

...property, made directly to the S.A.O. rather than to the French government. Officially, the F.L.N. and the S.A.O. denied they were speaking to each other. But at the local level there were increasing contacts between the two communities. At week's end, in the Algiers suburb of Belcourt, 200 Europeans filed into a movie theater under the protection of Moslem militants to ask questions of an F.L.N. captain about their future under Moslem rule. When the meeting ended, with only a single dissent, the Europeans voted a motion of confidence "in the Algeria of tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: A Way Out? | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

...Europeans queued up to see Spartacus; the line moved slowly not because of a lack of seats, but because each moviegoer was frisked for gun, knife or bomb before admittance. At sidewalk cafes, no one turned at the familiar wailing siren of an ambulance racing to Babel-Oued or Belcourt or Climat de France, where someone?European or Moslem?lay wounded or dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: The Not So Secret Army | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

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