Word: ch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although it came in the first week of the Met's 78th season, Meistersinger was not the opener. For that occasion the Met chose Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier, which is not a great opera-or even a very good one. Chénier, as General Manager Rudolf Bing candidly admitted, was the right length for an opener, and it had enough intermissions (three) to give first-nighters plenty of touring time in corridors, restaurant and lobbies. With Tenor Franco Corelli and Soprano Eileen Farrell in the lead roles, Chénier gave the audience...
...hand scroll showing a series of great palaces is a work of art so intricate that it seems like a series of fantasies by some Oriental Piranesi. Yet recent excavations in Red China have shown that the fountain and palaces really did exist at Sian (old Ch...
...layers of dirt, the restorers gradually revealed the brilliant Tudor blue ("byse") and gold work of the ceiling Wolsey ordered. It displayed the Tudor rose and the white plumes of the Prince of Wales, and it consists of 129 panels made up of a kind of papier-mâché. For the few panels that had been destroyed, the restorers finally came close to duplicating the material. One of its ingredients was goats' hair...
...Elms, built in 1901, was inspired by the Château Allière near Paris, sits like a palace in a park of landscaped terraces, ornamental walks, stately trees, lawns, fountains, plus two teahouses, three bronze statues, and a profusion of ornate limestone flower pots, cornucopias and wrestling cupids. No commercial vehicle ever scuffed the smooth gravel of its front driveway in the old days; and it took so much coal to animate the giant boilers that a special narrow-gauge underground railroad, complete with a turntable in the subbasement, was constructed to keep the hungry furnaces...
...farewell whirl of champagne-and-caviar parties tossed by Manhattan's ever-doting socialites, Edward, 67, and Wallis, 65, boarded the liner United States for a trip to Europe and a quiet, high-seas celebration in perfect counterpoint to the carnival atmosphere surrounding their 1937 wedding at the Château de Candé near Tours, France...