Word: carlo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hungry nations of the Western Hemisphere, a new find even remotely like Venezuela's bountiful Lake Maracaibo area would be the joyous national equivalent of breaking the bank at Monte Carlo. Last week, in nine countries within 1,500 miles of Maracaibo, the quest for black gold was on more earnestly than ever before, with U.S. oilmen leading the pack. In rain forests and cane fields, dozens of drilling rigs probed for the telltale "show...
...Washington audience that came to be enjoyably affronted by his lecture on "The Audience in Decadence," Composer Gian Carlo Menotti strummed a plain-spoken variation on one of his favorite themes. "It's not the taste of the modern audience which I think decadent." he declaimed, "but rather its character and individuality." The dogmatic tastes of today's audiences are rooted in their esthetic laziness. "I'd much rather sit at dinner next to one of those old ladies who tell you, 'Picasso is a fraud and Stravinsky a bore,' than beside one of those...
Robert Montgomery Presents (Dec. 24, 9:30 p.m., NBC) departs from its straight drama format to present the prize plum of the Christmas pudding-Gian Carlo Menotti's stirring Amahl and the Night Visitors (in color). The tele-opera gets for its seventh TV performance a new Amahl, ten-year-old Kirk Jordan...
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...single performance of Aïda last week, the Met introduced three young newcomers. In the singing department, there were La Scala's big-voiced Soprano Antoinetta Stella, 27, and lyrical Tenor Carlo Bergonzi, 32. Both suffered from debutitis, but recovered, and will probably become Met regulars. Most spectacular newcomer was Trinidad's rangy (6 ft. 6 in.) Dancer Geoffrey Holder, who appeared in the big ballet that sprawls in the middle of the opera. Holder made a startling appearance, his long brown body bare except for a white bikini and a brilliant, feather-patterned headdress...