Word: carmens
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...period piece. Its talent scouts range the country to seek out new voices, and its stage provides a training ground for the best of them. The theater gave Elisabeth Soederstrom her start when she was fresh out of school, helped Kerstin Meyer prepare for her U.S. debut in Carmen this fall. Even Sweden's established stars -Birgit Nilsson, Set Svanholm, Jussi Bjoerling-owe some of their development and much of their musical education to the Drottningholm Theater...
Obligation. What can be done has been made clear in Colorado, where boys and girls called Juan and Carmen have stooped in the sugar-beet fields for 40 years. For at least a decade. Colorado educators agitated for mandatory attendance in summer schools. The state still has no attendance law: growers oppose it. But four years ago, the state finally launched the first of five summer schools...
Surovy steered Rise into Carmen, her most famous Met role, and over her objections that she wanted to sing Bach and Gluck, he also got her to sing Carmen Jones, Showboat and other light fare. Result : while her operatic career has declined (she is now 47, he is 50), Stevens is still in demand for concert and TV performances. Surovy handles all the "commercial work" for his wife with such success that "if we ever got divorced, I think she'd still retain me as her personal manager." ¶Enrique Magrina, 38, was a law student at the University...
...Married. Carmen Burr Johnson, 33, widow and a trustee of the $5,000,000 estate of Arnold Johnson, owner of the Kansas City Athletics; and Warren Hume, 38, man about Palm Beach; she for the second time, he for the third; in Manhattan...
...ending is inevitable. Manuel returns seven years later rich as Cortes, but Soledad, to escape a nun's life, has married. At first the village priest persuades the blighted lover to set vengeance aside, but at last Manuel forces an ending so bloody - and romantic - as to put Carmen to shame...