Word: bravura
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Many a talented young U.S. singer longs to sing opera in Paris, but Edis de Philippe is the only one in this year's crop who had the bravura and the bravado to make the grade. Last week she became the first American to sing a major role in Paris' vast, rococo opera house since the war. It was Edis de Philippe's first Thaïs, and also her first flight into big-time opera...
Death came on cue, in the black hours before dawn. Bravura was there, too. Said the dying President of Chile to his Minister of Justice: "How should I die? On my stomach, on my side, or on my back?" For his War Minister he had a smart salute, then, "Adiós, General...
...rest of the cast successfully immerses itself in the galvanic carnival spirit, with enough bravura to match the elegance and color of the costuming and the traditional splendor of the deep-cut sets. Ruth Ford, a fetching Roxane, knows the coquette routine thoroughly, though at times she plays it over-precious. The supporting characters are without depth, as the playwright drew them, and beyond Hiram Sherman's foppish Ragineau, there was little opportunity for scene stealing...
Poker-faced and ramrod-stiff in his military grey, the first of the generals faced the court at Nürnberg last week. In Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel's defense, there was none of Hermann Göring's brilliant, bravura justification of Naziism. Like sweating, terrified Ribbentrop, who testified before him-but in a very different manner-the once proud Wehrmacht chief hid behind his Führer's back...
...Broadway last week, He seemed a good deal less freighted with inner meanings. It seemed, in fact, what it doubtless always was-a piece of theater, of emotional bravura, of florid fiddling. Behind its clown's make-up there was nothing much of a face. Yet the makeup, at first glance, was by no means unstriking. For half the evening, indeed-while its melodrama seemed crouching to spring-He had a jittery tension, a rataplan rhythm, a glare of circus lights and blare of circus music, that were theatrically vivid. Then things got fuzzy and highflown, and the melodrama...