Word: blissfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...libretto concerns a husband who becomes enamored of a swinging, unmarried friend of his wife's. Domesticity triumphs when the wife changes costumes, wigs and personalities to deflate the husband's romantic notions. Director Bliss Hebert wittily stages the action with an array of modish accouterments undreamed of by Schoenberg, including Visa cards and telephones with TV monitors; Maxine Willi Klein's sleek set looks like a sci-fi Better Homes and Gardens; and the cast, especially Soprano Mary Shearer as the wife, delivers a slyly spirited performance. Slight as it is, this is the kind...
Billionaire Daniel K. Ludwig, 82, views publicity as did Howard Hughes: less is more, none is bliss. Thus Johns Hopkins University was uncertain last week whether the legendary shipowner-entrepreneur would show up for an honorary degree. Lo and behold, he did. Photographers naturally focused on the new doctor of humane letters in his gold robe and white hood. "You've never had this many pictures taken in your life, have you?" joshed President Steven Muller. "Not willingly," grumbled the last tycoon. "But now I think I kinda like...
...would have thought that this prism of bliss is a mere pause amid tumult, a respite in a plot-clogged saga of murder and revenge, which features, among a good many other things, poison asps, opium, the collapse into rubble of an entire Indian temple? With Natalia Makarova's direction, the American Ballet Theater has produced the full-length La Bayadére, at a cost of about $500,000. American balletgoers are not used to such a florid, densely populated drama. To appreciate it, one must be prepared for a very full, surprising experience. The evening...
Surprisingly, the Metropolitan Opera, whose $43 million annual budget is four times as large as that of any other U.S. company, has a relatively paltry endowment of $2.2 million. In a press conference last week, Met President Frank Taplin and Executive Director Anthony Bliss announced plans to remedy that situation in a big way. By its 100th anniversary season in 1983-84, they said, the Met aims to raise its endowment to $100 million. Its nationwide campaign has already gathered $33 million in pledges, including a single gift of $5 million from the Texaco Philanthropic Foundation...
Among other things, the endowment will enable the Met to make improvements to its building and stage, to be freer in scheduling worthwhile productions with doubtful box-office appeal and to expand programs like its cultivation of young singers. With the additional money going into such projects, Bliss pointed out, there will be no letup in the need for annual contributions to offset regular operating deficits. Those contributions now total $14.6 million and will almost certainly have to go higher in future seasons. Is there a danger that the endowment campaign will undercut the annual fund raising? Bliss said...