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...Italy for study and experience. Christoff fled to Salzburg when the Germans occupied Italy ("not wanting to get in any kind of a war"), later returned and applied for Italian citizenship and married an Italian girl. In 1946 Christoff made his Rome debut (as Colline in La Bohéme) and three years later achieved Boris, which had been his musical ambition since the time he saw the opera as a child. When the Met's Rudolf Bing invited him to New York in 1950, his visa was denied-Christoff never learned why. This time, the combination of eased...
Although he rarely bothers with public entertainment, President Eisenhower spent one air-conditioned afternoon last week watching a show, This Is Cinerama. As President, he has attended no plays, only one concert (the National Symphony in 1953) and one opera (the Metropolitan's road-company La Bohème last April). But he wanted to see the curved-screen Cinerama process. Since it could not be shown at the White House, the President and most of his staff went to a private showing at Washington's Warner Theater. Dutifully, a Secret Service agent-tall at that...
...came back in 1943 to sing Venus from a sitting position, Interrupted Melody is a poliopera in color. For three-fourths of the picture, Singer Lawrence (played by Eleanor Parker, sung by Eileen Farrell) vivaciously eludes the clutches of one hairy tenor after another in scenes from Carmen, La Bohème, II Trovatore and Samson et Dalila. In the final fourth, with the loyal support of her husband (Glenn Ford), she grimly fights off her affliction. Somehow, the film trails vaguely away from the sense of real-life sorrow and courage which inspired it. Instead, the audience is left...
...amuse as much as the others; they take less time; you possess them without worries and leave them without regrets." Up in Paris from the provinces, where he almost took vows of chastity and became a priest, Diderot followed his own advice and lived the left-bank vie de Bohéme, made up of much talk, not enough food and more than enough love...
...listed the prologue to Pagliacci. The big curtains parted on a husky, stiff-backed man named Leonard Warren, dressed in a peculiar costume-tails and a blue shirt (probably for TV). His words were in incomprehensible Italian, but he certainly could sing. Next came the first act from La Bohème. The scene was a huge, musty attic with four gay blades romping around. The music was very pretty, and it seemed clear that the stocky fellow in an artist's beret named Richard Tucker was making time with Victoria de los Angeles. This kind of thing, thought...