Word: cos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only four days before curtain time, but the Metropolitan Opera's brave new production of Mozart's Così Fan Tutte was trembling and acold. At rehearsal, the singers were tired and downcast. Stage Director Alfred Lunt was slumped in a front-row seat, clasping his head. From the pit came the low, gruff voice of Veteran Conductor Fritz Stiedry: "Alfred! Be very angry. Make a big scene...
...Easy Lessons. When General Manager Rudolf Bing first asked Actor Lunt to direct Così, he told him that all he had to do was to make it "light, gay and elegant." Protested Lunt: "You cannot get those opera singers up on their points with six lessons from Madame LaZonga."* But once he had listened to Mozart's elegantly subtle score (unheard at the Met since 1928), Lunt accepted the challenge...
...ranking soubrette, Patrice's work is pretty well cut out for her. This season, in addition to eight Adeles in Fledermaus and three Musettas in Bohème, she will get a coveted role in the Met's new, English-language production of Mozart's Cosí Fan Tutte, as Despina the maid, who decoys her mistresses into affairs with two rich Albanians, masquerades as a quack physician, and generally moves the whole plot around...
...last week, some 250.000 freshmen at colleges all over the U.S. had had a chance to read the saga of Ted; most campus COs apparently were convinced that Ted's primer-simple story was just what their freshmen would go for.* Without consulting with each other, Colonels Summerall and Stancisko had come to a contrary conclusion, left their stocks of Ted undistributed. Explained West Pointer Summerall last week: "You've got to consider the type of institution...