Word: carlos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wobbling Sphinxes. To build the new production of Verdi's triumphal tragedy of the Nile, Bing had brought in the same crack team that gave Verdi's Don Carlo a new glow last season: Broadway's Maggie Webster and Designer Rolf Gerard. They soon found out what everyone from Bing to Conductor Fausto Cleva definitely did not want: "All those wobbling sphinxes, painted canvas temples, unrehearsed supers in ridiculous costumes, and four-footed beasts." They set out to make the new Aïda "as simple and uncluttered as possible...
Making up for her neglect of A'ida, Maggie Webster spent hours with score and libretto, and decided that there was more to it than mere heart-warming and blood-tingling melodrama-more than "Love, Jealousy and Sacrifice in capital letters." As in Don Carlo, she found in Aïda the "tragedy of individuals caught up in a conflict with the dictates of an autocracy." She also decided to start fresh with her stage direction, and not delve into the "encrustations of tradition...
Wolf-Ferrari based his Ruffians on a farce by 18th Century Carlo Goldoni: two prosperous Venetian merchants arrange a marriage of convenience for their children, and, being unromantic old curmudgeons, vow that the young couple shall not be allowed to meet until they reach the altar. Their wives, being romantic busybodies, vow that the youngsters shall meet anyhow, and thereby thinly hangs the opera...
...Paris, after finishing her first movie, Monte Carlo Baby, Michelle Farmer, 19-year-old daughter of Gloria Swanson, announced that she was flying home to tell mother about her plans to marry Turkish-born Movie Producer Robert Amon, 36. Said she: "As a kid I traveled with mother on enough one-night stands. I know what an awful lot of heartbreak and struggle goes into a stage career. If there's a choice, you're crazy not to take a home and a family...
...nightmares, ballerinas sometimes dream of falling flat. In Detroit's Masonic Auditorium last week, the bad dream came true for the whole Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo...