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...WISH everybody could sing like Marilyn Horne. It isn't fair that only one human being in the world should have a voice like that. But as long as there's only one, it's folly to waste her on such enterprises as the Opera Company of Boston's Carmen, through which she glided like a swan in a cesspool...

Author: By Stephen Kaplan, | Title: Carmen | 3/7/1968 | See Source »

...Democrática party. The visit was a brief one, though, for there was another party back in Switzerland awaiting Betancourt's ministrations. That would be Renee Hartman Viso, 44, soon to become his wife. Betancourt disclosed that he had divorced his first wife, Costa Rican-born Carmen Valverde, to be free to marry Renee. But his absence during the long divorce proceedings, some Venezuelans believe, may cost Acción Democrática the 1968 election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 16, 1968 | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...Prancing. Last week in Manhattan, Resnik returned to what is by all odds the finest of her 77 roles, stepping into the title part of the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Carmen. Her Carmen is far from the flippant vixen so often projected by younger singers. "Carmen," she says, "is not a hip-swinging, tawdry, gutsy tart. I'll be damned if I'll prance around in the role." Instead, using dozens of shrewdly modulated gestures and inflections-a taunting yet soulful stare, a rippling laugh, an unexpectedly quiet and silken musical phrase-she builds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opera: Growth to Grandeur | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

Then, in quick succession, he married a pretty Canadian voice student named Carmen Lasky whom he had met in Vienna, won a prize in the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic competition for young conductors, graduated from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conductors: Gypsy Boy | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

Meantime, his marriage was burning out. "I would come home from a world of travel and music," Mehta says, "and smell the diapers boiling. We grew apart." In 1964 the Mehtas got a divorce. "It just happened," Carmen says now. "I never did anything nasty to him, and he never did anything nasty to me." Mehta asked his younger brother Zarin, an accountant who had immigrated to Montreal via England, to look in occasionally on Carmen and the children (a daughter Zarina, now 9, and a son Merwan, 7). Zarin looked in occasionally, then more often. In 1966 Zubin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conductors: Gypsy Boy | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

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