Word: carlos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curtain time on opening night in Brussels, almost everything connected with the new opera seemed to have gone wrong. Less than a month before, Composer-Librettist-Director Gian Carlo Menotti was still frantically writing Act III when he put Act I into rehearsal. In the last hours he found that the orchestra pit in the U.S. Pavilion's theater looked all wrong, ordered it repainted dark brown. Belgium's Queen Elisabeth arrived for the premiere, had to be placed in a niche originally designed for spotlights, since the American theater had nothing like a royal box. About...
Heedless of acres of bikini-clad flesh, Riviera tourists paid boatmen $10 a head to ride from Monte Carlo to nearby Cap-d'Ail. The lure: a possible chance of spying vacationing Sir Winston Churchill propped up on the shore in shorts, wide-brimmed straw hat, open-necked shirt and cigar...
...star in Germany, U.S. Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson wrote: "She is beautiful in a new way, a way that nobody has vulgarized so far." Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya fled the Nazis in 1933 and went to Paris-after Lenya gambled away much of their savings in Monte Carlo. Two years later they settled in the U.S. After Weill's death of a heart attack in 1950, she remarried (Editor-Novelist George Davis, who died last year) and set to work to secure Weill's reputation. Although he had insisted that he despised posterity, she succeeded so well...
...finest solo talents in the U.S. turned up for one-night stands: Singers George London, Blanche Thebom, Leontyne Price, Robert McFerrin, Pianist Byron Janis, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin. Still to come are Pianist Leon Fleisher, Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick, Singers William Warfield, Eleanor Steber, Harry Belafonte. The world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera Maria Golovin will take place in Brussels, and some performers from the Newport Jazz Festival will appear. The most cherished scheme of U.S. Performing Arts Coordinator Jean Dalrymple: to find a well-heeled angel who will underwrite a live run of Pajama Game...
...espionage in civil-war-torn Spain to accommodate a friend in the Foreign Office, and he wants a few weeks of peace before the fall term starts at Oxford. But he needs money (he has worked out a scheme to pauperize the Grimaldis' gambling hell at Monte Carlo), and a millionaire industrialist offers him ?500 to truffle out some missing Bach concertos...