Word: borises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The Czar's torment is terrible-but is it madness or fatal grief? He lives out his last days in the hollow splendor of his Russian palace, haunted by the child king he has murdered, as frightened of his own evil as of the false pretender who is coming...
You Are Boris. Every basso is his own Boris, and the six who sing it best differ widely in their interpretation of the role. The Metropolitan Opera's Jerome Hines conducted a hit-and-run seminar in psychology some years ago and concluded that Boris was a hysteric and...
...Borises must live with the towering memory of Feodor Chaliapin, who brought Mussorgsky's masterpiece out of Russia and, until his death in 1938, was always considered the best Boris. Since then, Chaliapin's Boris (anguished and anguishing) has been as intimidating...
The task force working on the cover story in France was mobilized by Paris Bureau Chief Curtis Prendergast ("It was a week of sweat, sandwiches and Coca-Cola"), who handled the broad assessment of the situation himself, while assigning Correspondents Judson Gooding to report on the French political temper, Jeremy...
It may not be Poe-etry, but it's what the raven quoth. And why not? After all, this is just a sappy little parody of a horror picture cutely calculated to make the children scream with terror while their parents scream with glee. The raven, see, isn'...