Word: covent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nonvoting shares to em ployees, amounting to about 15% of their salaries. Through councils in each store and a company-wide central council, a dialogue is kept going between management and "partners." The company also spends some $500,000 a year on cultural subsidies (half-price tickets to Covent Garden and the Old Vic) and such perks as clubs (30, from gardening to judo) and low-cost holidays in the company-owned Brownsea Castle at Poole Harbor...
Britain's balletomanes were aghast at the news from Covent Garden. Rudolf Nureyev's partner in two productions of Romeo and Juliet this October will not be Dame Margot Fonteyn, 48, his matchless partner of the past five years, but a comparatively dewy Covent Garden ballerina from Rhodesia, Merle Park, 29. Could it be that the most brilliant team in modern ballet will be unhitched at last? "A big lie!" stormed Rudi. He and Dame Margot have occasionally danced with others in the past as schedules demanded. As Covent Gar den sped forward with reassurances that Rudi...
...sold out. Kelly's winning formula: high-quality productions with big-name singers and the best young talent available. Highlight of the company's new production of Macbeth last week was the performance of Welsh Soprano Gwyneth Jones. A tall, flame-haired import from London's Covent Garden, she was a marvelously malevolent partner for Baritone Mario Zanasi as Macbeth, repeatedly thrilled the audience with her heroic, ringing voice. Jones's appearance marked her U.S. debut, and is the latest in a long string of firsts for the Dallas Civic Opera. The company, in fact, like...
Soapsuds & Whitewash. Turner, who in his own lifetime was recognized as perhaps the greatest painter of his era, knew his full share of both wealth and derision. Born to a Covent Garden barber in 1775, he was admitted at 14 as a student in the Royal Academy. At 27, he was elected a full-fledged academician. The works that won him fame, however, were hardly revolutionary. During his earlier years, Turner churned out Old Testament fantasies, nymphs cavorting in arcadian glades, and historical scenarios of such newsworthy topics as the battles of Waterloo and Trafalgar...
...sale," sell for $9.50 for a single copy, up to $25 for an album. For the Callas fan, for example, the catalogue lists her excellent 1958 performance of Medea with the Dallas Opera, taped by a college student who hid his microphone in the footlights, and a 1952 Covent Garden production of Norma, prized by collectors because the cast also featured a then unknown singer named Joan Sutherland...