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Director Bing chose opening week to announce another bold venture. Early in December, said he, a performance of Carmen will be televised from the stage of the Met, piped on a closed circuit to some 30 motion-picture houses in cities from coast to coast. If people will pay (sometimes) to see televised prizefights, perhaps they will pay to see televised opera. In any case, Bing means to find...
...undertaking My Darlin' Aida, Librettist Friedman was frankly inspired by the success of Carmen Jones. But there are great differences, not just between him and the much defter Oscar Hammerstein II, but between the parent operas themselves. Carmen has a vivid, earthy, human story; Aida's is unreal and faraway. Carmen, again, has the theater blood of the opera comique; Aida possesses both the stiffness and the elevation of truly grand opera. Where many operas-La Traviata, Tosca, La Boheme-might be at home on Broadway, not only must the story of Aida be revamped; the finer values...
...gave a whole column to the vocal attainments of an African grey parrot, including printed musical notes. The parrot, named Coco and thought to be 65 years old, performs nightly in the bar of a Long Island restaurant. In his repertory are a dozen tunes (from Aïda, Carmen, Peer Gynt, etc.), taught to him by the waiters, who are younger but better educated...
...Generalissimo Franco, about to take off on his annual tuna-fishing expedition in the Mediterranean, the occasion was a more formal date: a party in El Pardo Palace for Carmen, his only granddaughter...
...World War II WACs went about the business of serving their country with more energy or application than slim, dark-eyed Alba Carmen Martinelli. Alba, one of six children of an immigrant Italian engineer, could speak Italian and French when she quit teaching school in Plymouth, Mass, to join the Army. She learned four more languages-Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Tibetan-studied at Stanford and the University of Virginia, and ended up as a major and an adviser to the Korean government...