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...sociology; Fidelia is a highly moving musical treatise on freedom, The Marriage of Figaro on the corruption of aristocracy, Don Carlos on the dilemmas of power. Opera plots and music are sexy. Most operatic heroines fail to wait for the wedding ceremony (Manon, Mimi, Tosca, Aïda, Carmen, Santuzza, Brünnhilde), and they (Norma, Marguerite, Sieglinde, Suor Angelica) have a lot of illegitimate children. Whatever one may think of the plots, one remembers the characters. Rigoletto may end up absurdly with the heroine killed by mistake and then carried in a sack by her own father, who thinks...
...none of this proves that opera is finished. New works are almost never quickly accepted-even Carmen flopped at first. Singers complained that they couldn't sing Wagner (some still do, and can't), and again and again the end of opera was proclaimed. To many, the most recent "end" came with Richard Strauss, who died in 1949. When Alban Berg's magnificent Wozzek was first performed in 1925, some people covered their ears in horror; today it is widely accepted as an almost mellow classic. Julius Rudel, director of Manhattan's enterprising New York City...
Bing's Gospel. In addition to Susannah, the repertory for the company's first 37-week season includes such standards as Carmen, Madama Butterfly and Cinderella. In all, the singers will perform a total of 250 times, rotating roles...
Died. Dorothy Dandridge, 41, Negro singing star, who in the 1950s ruled the supper clubs with her stunning beauty, gold lame-clad figure and torch songs (Love Isn't Born, It's Made), later turned to films, giving starring performances in Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess, but then saw the torch dim, was forced into bankruptcy in 1963; of a stroke; in Hollywood...
...Pretty Nice." They were happy talking about their futures. Some, like Marine, know the jobs they want to train for. "I like to take care of little kids," she said. She will probably be trained to work in a nursery. Carmen Velezi, 16, a tiny girl with long black hair, comes from Newark, N.J., and can talk quite intelligently-but only in Spanish. She hopes to learn English well enough to get a job as a secretary or a beautician. Paulette Prentice of Pittsburgh managed to finish high school but couldn't hold even menial jobs...