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Better in Bulgaria? Communist bosses are puzzled by the growing dissatisfaction, primarily because their people enjoy the highest standard of living in Eastern Europe. (East Germany's per capita G.N.P. is $3,430, compared with Poland's $2,450 and Bulgaria's $1,770.) One problem is that East Germany is suffering from an acute shortage of hard currency. This is largely because of the recent price increase in oil imported by East Germany from the Soviet Union. As a result, consumer goods are in unusually short supply...
...Scala opened with Macbeth, considered one of its best new productions. Typically, the company offered a cast of Italian and non-Italian singers, notably Italy's Piero Cappuccilli as Macbeth, the U.S.'s Shirley Verrett as Lady Macbeth and Bulgaria's Nicolai Ghiaurov as Banquo. On the podium was Claudio Abbado, the company's former music director who, at 43, is a conductor of international stature. The production was conceived and staged by Italy's Giorgio Strehler (see box). For Strehler, it was one of three moments in the spotlight. His staging of Figaro...
...Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Rumania...
Assembled in Stockholm's hauntingly Gothic cathedral were four reigning monarchs (Belgium's King Baudouin, Denmark's Queen Margrethe II, Luxembourg's Grand Duke Jean and Norway's King Olav V), ex-King Constantine of Greece and ex-Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria, eight princes, ten princesses and other assorted nobility...
King Simeon II of Bulgaria, 38, who considers his job that of "keeping the Bulgarian spirit alive"-notably in the U.S., where there are 50,000 of his fellow-countrymen. He is married to a Spanish aristocrat and lives in Madrid with their four sons and a daughter...