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...operatic debut, flawlessly performed the role of Cornelia, effortlessly pouring out great billows of plum-shaded singing that served as a lush backdrop for the vocal scrollwork of the other principal singers. Where they thrilled, she caressed. Predictably, the heaviest applause went to Soprano Beverly Sills as Cleopatra and Bass-Baritone Norman Treigle as Caesar...
...went bankrupt when TV started. Last week ABC and CBS together agreed to pay $92 million for 110 movies from 20th Century-Fox, Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Top (and record) payout was ABC's $5,000,-000 for two showings in 1971 of the Burton-Taylor film Cleopatra. 20th Century-Fox, after fretting over the most costly ($31 million) production in movie history, can now thank TV for putting Cleo into the black...
...Antony and Cleopatra was a disappointment, the new house, this exceptional season, and your delightfully written cover story are not. You have successfully retired the cliche that Bing is a stuffy, humorless, inept Austrian tyrant and given us a wi. ty. dedicated, and exceptionally talented human being...
...advance, and one scene can be slid forward onto the stage as another is hauled off to the side. (I assume that the interminable intermission waits at La Gioconda were due to the fact that the turntable had been broken the previous week, when the director of Antony and Cleopatra, Franco Zefferelli, loaded it with five times the weight it was designed to hold.) There are hardly any partial view seats in the new Met and the standees have padded arm rests...
...schedule for the upcoming season: in addition to Antony and Cleopatra, it includes an unprecedented nine new productions, including such contemporary operas as Britten's Peter Grimes and the world premiere of Marvin Levy's Mourning Becomes Electra...