Word: carmens
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...late. Welterweight Champion Carmen Basilio discovered that he never had a chance in his title bout with Challenger Johnny Saxton in Chicago. Carmen ran himself ragged trying to catch his man, but ex-Champ Saxton stayed on his bicycle, avoided a knockout, and for his reward, received a unanimous decision that shocked sportswriters and spectators alike into a long Bronx cheer. "I just don't know why people feel badly because I won," said the new champion...
...Metropolitan Opera got a new Carmen last week. She serpentined onstage in a dress of bare-shouldered abandon, and the rose in her hand glowed like the apple of Eden. She tilted her ink-black mane at a confident angle and poured out in seductive French: "When I'll give you my love? I'm sure I couldn't say; perhaps not at all-tomorrow I may." Her big voice had a dark, anthracite sheen, sometimes with more polish than depth, sometimes with not quite enough polish, but always firm and sometimes thrilling. By the time...
...Carmen has everything-true love and sensuality, hot blood and cold fate, betrayal and retribution, passionate songs and smoky dances-and the essence of Carmen is Carmen. It is about the most desirable of all roles for female singers, particularly if they have rich, dark voices. But where many women feel the urge to be a Carmen, comparatively few get the chance to face the footlights alongside a Don Jose or an Escamillo...
...studies at Manhattan's Juilliard School, but a Juilliard piano teacher told her: "If I had a voice like that I would go into opera-you can always play the piano." Jean took the advice, and eight years later was hired by the Met. Once she sang Carmen from the Met stage, but only in a student matinee. She prepped for the real thing in a succession of out-of-town productions, from Munich, Germany to Pocatello, Idaho. At the Met she moved into many of the important second leads that inevitably fall to a contralto...
...happened in Vienna last fall. When she burst into Carmen's Habanera on the Theater an der Wien stage, she was just an unusually handsome singer from the states. When she finished the song, the house vibrated with ecstatic shouting, and she was a star. One cast member counted 45 curtain calls. The less-demonstrative Met was not so generous last week when the curtain came down (on St. Patrick's Day) on its new Carmen (only about 15 calls), but happy Jean Madeira was serenaded with applause and pelted with green carnations. "I'd be glad...