Word: covent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soprano Sutherland started out in an entirely different style, hoping to be a Wagnerian singer. The daughter of a Sydney tailor, she took her first voice lessons from her mother, a "nonprofessional mezzo-soprano," won a number of local competitions and with the prize money decamped for London. At Covent Garden auditions, she learned that the Wagner repertory was not for her: "My voice really isn't heavy enough for that, and I soon understood that I'd been forcing it along a road that was wrong...
Last week, just a year after making his debut in London with only a minimum of operatic training, the tenor was shuttling between London's Covent Garden, where he sang Canio in Pagliacci, and Amsterdam's Nederlandsche Opera, where he sang the notoriously difficult lead in Otello. The months of additional study at La Scala had not spoiled Philadelphia-born Leonard del Ferro, 31. European critics call him one of the most exciting male singers to come their way in years...
...Pennsylvanians, packaged and produced TV shows, even played a season of semi-pro football. But all the time he yearned to "go legit" as a singer, briefly studied voice in New York. An agent advised him to get live dramatic experience, and he took off for England, where Covent Garden promptly offered the role of Radames in A'ida after a single audition. Since then, in London and Amsterdam, he has never sung anything but lead roles, already has offers from Vienna, Hamburg, Tel Aviv. Worries Del Ferro: "A tenor can be ruined vocally and psychologically by going...
...their first public outing since proclamation of their engagement, Britain's radiant Princess Margaret and her handsome fiance, London Photographer Antony Armstrong-Jones, showed up at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, for a charity ballet performance. After crowds outside cheered and shouted, "God bless you both!" the couple moved inside to the royal box and a two-minute ovation from some 2,000 ballet goers. Trailing Margaret by the protocol-prescribed three paces, Tony showed that he had learned his lessons well. There was indeed a clear hint of who his tutor might be: acknowledging the applause...
...Town), long acknowledged the company's most polished virtuoso. Around the 32-year-old ballerina Ashton draped a ballet rich in invention, defiant of technical limitations, blending high jinks, low comedy and pathos. Brilliantly supported by Yorkshire-born David Blair (he managed a singlehanded portage not rivaled at Covent Garden since Ulanova was toted out of Juliet's tomb), Dancer Nerina turned in a performance of superb precision, fluency and lightness. The ballet had some stunning virtuoso bits: a pas de ruban running like a thread through the first two scenes, m which the lovers reel each other...