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The cult of the opera singer, in fact, is spiced with more fads, phobias and superstitions than are found in most primitive cultures. The most persistent myth is that girth somehow determines worth, a legend that one doctor says stems from the fact that many of the early Italian singers...
The most conspicuous manifestation of the waning of provincialism and the birth of a new sophistication is what has been called the cultural explosion. Culture used to be thought of as almost the exclusive property of the Eastern Seaboard, which occasionally cast a few blessed raindrops over the cultural desert...
Sir: As one who would rather experience a Callas Toscu than an LSD trip. I applaud TIME for daring to like Rudolf Bing and the beautiful new Met [Sept. 23|. It is the latest chic to find the Met somehow appalling or worse, mundane. It is gaudy (so are diamonds...
When Bing took over the Met in 1950, there were all kinds of toes waiting to be stepped on-and he did not miss many. His predecessor, an easygoing ex-tenor named Edward Johnson, had run a tidy if not altogether harmonious house where the terrible-tempered diva and the...
Maria who? Today, considerably slimmed down and grown sharp, she is known as Maria Callas. Other Amateur Hour alumni and their years are Merril Miller, '36 (now the Metropolitan Opera's Robert Merrill), and a member of the Hoboken Four, Frank Sinatra, '35. Other graduates include Teresa...