Word: cosy
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...when it comes to exercising them: the likes of Leontyne Price and Anna Moffo had to go to European houses to learn how to sing with professional skill. A major exception to that failing is Soprano Phyllis Curtin, who made an immensely successful Metropolitan Opera debut this season in Cosi fan Tutte. Soprano Curtin was also a smash in Europe before she came to the Met, but her European success merely topped off a career patiently built in America. Last week, as she followed a superbly rousing performance of Strauss's Salome at the Vienna Staatsoper with another performance...
...most of America's expatriate singers are unknown at home, many of them have built up sizable European reputations. New York-born Claire Watson, 33, was one of the hits of last summer's Munich Festival, where she appeared as the Marschallin in Rosenkavalier and Fiordiligi in Cosi Fan Tutte. Brooklyn's Evelyn Lear, 31, of West Berlin's State Opera created a sensation at the Vienna Festival in Alban Berg's Lulu. Her Texas-born husband, Baritone Thomas Stewart, 31, was a surprise success as Amfortas in last summer's Parsifal at Bayreuth...
Established in 1955 by Don Giacomo Alberione, now 75, founder of the Society of St. Paul, a progressive order that uses such modern means as movies, radio and TV to spread the word of Christ, Cosi competes on nonsecular terms. By its low price-Cosi sells for 50 lire (8?), about half the going rate-and by a vigorous door-to-door selling campaign, the Daughters of St. Paul say they have pushed the magazine's circulation to 300,000, respectably close to the two leaders in the crowded Italian women's field, Grazia and Annabella, each with...
...recent week two of Cosi's blackhabited staffers sat among the smartly dressed buyers at a high-fashion show in Rome. As the models in chic suits, lowcut evening gowns and bathing suits walked by, the sisters, looking a bit like ravens at a parade of cockatoos, exchanged expert opinions, took precise notes. After the showing, they stepped into Cosi's staff car, a blue Fiat, and drove away to their walled convent on Rome's southern side. There they produced a sprightly and authoritative review of the latest modes...
Editing with Care. When the sisters are given bylines for their articles, their given names are always used. There is a good reason for such policy: Cosi's ten sister-staffers want their magazine to stand as more than a conventual oddity. Says Sister Lorenzina: "We take great care in editing so that readers should not see that Cosi is obviously done by nuns. By publishing a gay and amusing magazine- always within the concepts of Christian morality and modesty-we try to attract readers who would otherwise buy lay publications which are often scandalous and harmful to morals...