Word: berge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During rehearsals there had been more excitement than usual among the stagehands at the Metropolitan Opera. Alban Berg's classic 20th century opera Lulu was being mounted for the first time in the company's history, but that was not it: to stagehands one opera is as memorable as another. What held their eyes was a makeshift dressing room right behind the sets. No wonder. The star of the show would regularly dash into it for a series of quick costume changes, some of her garments being scantier than others. As the opening-night audience soon learned, Soprano...
Special Problem. Conductor James Levine and Stage Director John Dexter, the duo currently guiding the Met's artistic fortunes, have come up with a brilliant Lulu. Levine unravels Berg's intricate, absorbing twelve-tone score in an almost chamberistic way, keeping all voices and orchestral strands balanced and clearly audible, yet summoning up a kind of debauched expressionism when that is called...
...hill in Jackson, Miss., Diana Berg flagged down a milk truck and warned the driver against going so fast. "Oh, don't you worry about me," he said. "I'm from Illinois. I can handle this stuff. Want a joyride?" Berg declined, then watched the truck slam downhill into a Volkswagen and another truck. Amazingly, no one was hurt. Says she: "My jaws were frozen into a laugh for about an hour...
...event, like Aspen itself, brought together the worlds of big-buck entertainment and world-class skiing. The waiflike, French-born defendant had been a lead Folies-Bergère showgirl in Las Vegas. There she met Andy Williams, the Kennedys' favorite crooner, and ended up marrying him and his singing career. After 14 years of marriage and three children, they were divorced in 1975, but by then Longet had moved in with Sabich. The skier, a former world pro champion, was a celebrated bon vivant who owned a $250,000 mountaintop house in Aspen. It was there, while...
After studying all the numbers and complexities for several weeks, the Carter pardon team, headed by Houston Lawyer David H. Berg, has made its recommendations to Charles Kirbo, the President-elect's key transition adviser...