Word: bizet
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...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Music of Mozart, Bizet, Richard Strauss...
...watching Oklahoma-born Maria Tallchief dance with the vigorous young New York City Ballet Company, balletomanes could smile at that one. Combining gusto with flawless technique, Maria's performance in Firebird already ranks as one of the finest in present-day ballet; her other specialties, e.g., the Balanchine-Bizet Symphony in C, her Pas de Deux from Sylvia, and Divertimento, are danced with the style and confidence of a great prima ballerina. And, at 25, she has a lot of ballet ahead...
Opera Theater (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC). Bizet's Carmen...
...chef-d'oeuvre of the evening in Roland Petit's much-discussed "Carmen." This ballet returns to the sensual, impetuous spirit of the Merimee novel, although its score uses excerpts from Bizet's opera. Rence Jeanmaire is a seductive and fiery Carmen. When she is on the stage the downfall of Don Jose, danced by Petit, becomes completely believable. Jeanmaire and Petit dance together with great smoothness and polish; they are both dancers of the first rank. Serge Perrault and Belinda Wright dance supporting parts with skill...
...mass assault on television. ABC started it with ponderous telecasts from the Metropolitan of Otello and Der Rosenkavalier. Last week, in the first of a series, CBS and Artistic Director Lawrence Tibbett proved that opera could be sprightly as well as tuneful, in an 80-minute version of Bizet's Carmen on the Opera Television Theater...