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...look. Because she insisted on mounting productions that were "brand new from the first costume down to the last piece of scenery," Wallmann became the natural choice to direct premiere performances, from Darius Milhaud's David to La Scala's now-famed 1958 rendition of Turandot with Birgit Nilsson. Now Wallmann is off to Rome and a new opera by Italian Composer Mario Zafred; next, a production of Rossini's Zelmira at Naples, and Verdi's Otello for the opening of the Athens Festival. If her schedule holds, Wallmann will make it to Manhattan in time...
Salome was 16 and slinky-slim. Birgit Nilsson is 46 and boatswain-burly. As for casting the Swede in the title role of Richard Strauss's Salome, the idea seemed roughly comparable to starring Judith Anderson as Lolita. But New York's Metropolitan Opera does, on occasion, have imagination, and for its long-awaited restaging of Salome, the Met put its money on Birgit...
...Birgit Nilsson may not have the body, but her voice does-and so last week she made her U.S. debut in the role...
...this story in Copenhagen is Knud Meister (cable address: TIMEISTER), one of Denmark's best-known journalists. A top staff member of Copenhagen's leading daily, Berlingske Tidende, he is also author of many books. For the past year, Meister's daughter, Birgit, 22, who wants to follow in her father's journalistic path in Denmark, has been working for TIME in Manhattan. Watching her progress, and recalling that he has represented TIME in Denmark since 1949, her father has let it be known that he hopes "some day TIME will hire a new stringer...
Scandinavians are reaching out in other media. Ingmar Bergman's tortured film canon, topped by The Silence, has built a worldwide movie cult unequaled by any Scandinavian since Garbo's girlhood. Half a dozen Swedish singers, from Kerstin Thorborg to Birgit Nilsson, commute between Stockholm's Royal Opera and Manhattan's Metropolitan. Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal, author of a classic study of the U.S. Negro and his problems, who went on to become executive sec retary of the U.N.'s Economic Commission for Europe, is currently writing what promises to be the definitive work...