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Opening in Norma, Bellini's old and faded drama of the Druids. 30-year-old Soprano Callas lived up to her reputation. With her lissome figure handsomely clad in white and crimson, she looked almost too young and beautiful to be a pagan high priestess. She made a minimum of movement onstage, achieved precise dramatic effects by the tilt of her head or the angle of her body, but also electrified the crowd with slashing moments of violence, as when she confronted her faithless lover in Act II. Her voice ranged from flutely pianissimos that penetrated to the last...
...Museum of Art one of the finest in the world. Among its treasures, it boasts two Titians, two El Grecos, four Goyas, four Manets, two Monets, seven Modiglianis, ten Toulouse-Lautrecs, eleven Renoirs, four Van Goghs, five Ceézannes, two Gauguins, two Picassos and such masters as Bellini, Mantegna, Memling, Raphael, Rembrandt, Rubens and Valasquez. Most of these possessions are a result of Chato's winning way of putting the bite on other people for money...
...Metropolitan Opera faced an exhausting week. It began when the stagehands, who have worked for more than a year without a contract, failed to turn up for a rehearsal of Bellini's Norma. Members of the office staff sweated over heavy props and managed to get some of the proper lights running...
...clear that the world had regained a magnificent pair of pictures, worthy of the great tradition of Giovanni Bellini, and showing a clarity of form and color foreign to 20th century artists. The question was how they had come to disappear in the first place. They were known to have been in the Duke of Norfolk's collection in 1894, when Westminster Cathedral was still under construction. Presumably he gave them to the cathedral, and they lay forgotten for years in the cavernous fastnesses of Westminster...
...Greco, Rembrandt, Goya, and latter-day Frenchmen like Cézanne and Renoir. One of the show's standouts: Botticelli's tiny, delicate Annunciation, which Robert Lehman bought as a birthday present for his father in 1929. There are also two beautiful Madonnas: one by Giovanni Bellini shows a poignantly pensive Mary in a rich, blue robe, supporting a standing Infant Christ; the other, called The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, is by the Flemish artist Adriaen Isenbrant, who has painted a weary Madonna with delicately shadowed eyes...