Word: callases
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Although troubled with a minor back strain, Pat Nixon (who quietly celebrated her 45th birthday last week) showed up at the annual Republican Women's Na tional Conference in Washington, compared new spring hat notes with Mamie Eisenhower. Later, the First Lady learned that for the sixth time she...
At least one critic, the New York World-Telegram and The Sun's Louis Biancolli, confessed that the last act had reduced him to tears. Such weeping not withstanding, it was not the greatest Otello in Met history. Nor did it have the special attraction of Maria Callas (who...
Then, without mentioning his name. Bernstein singed the war bonnet of New York Herald Tribune Critic Paul Henry Lang, 56, professor of musicology at Columbia University, who had scolded Maria Meneghini Callas and Tenor Daniele Barioni for singing flat in their first-act duet in La Traviata (TIME, Feb. 17...
Forgotten was Callas' walkout from the Rome Opera last month (TIME, Jan. 13) when she lost her voice during a performance of Norma. At the final curtain she took ten solo bows. The true measure of how totally Callas dominated last week's Traviata was the credibility she...
Callas' own performance had the familiar virtues and faults: warmth and purity in the lower and middle registers, edginess and wobble in the upper ones. But she infused the character of Violetta with ardency, hectic gaiety and a dampened passion that flickered through the role like a wayward fever...