Word: covent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the war, Bonham-Carter has become strongly connected with the so-called living arts in Great Britain. In addition to his position on the board of directors of Covent Garden, he is a former member of the British Arts Council, and is at present a governor of the Royal Ballet School, and a Director of the Royal Ballet, with which group he toured through Russia last year...
...becoming a ballerina, was Geraldine Chaplin, 17, eldest daughter of Comedian Charlie and his fourth wife, Oona O'Neill. A month and a half of the Royal Ballet's rigorous training had presumably not yet readied the Chaplin family's latest gift to the stage for Covent Garden. But with her combination of her father's elan and her mother's exotic beauty, Geraldine was decidedly ready for Degas...
...Princess Margaret, 30, has no intention of undergoing a solitary pre-confinement. Back in London after at tending the Yorkshire wedding of her cousin, the Duke of Kent, she accompanied Husband Antony Armstrong-Jones to the opening of the Leningrad Kirov Opera Ballet Company, happily joined the packed Covent Garden house in its energetic, foot-stomping applause. After the performance, they bolted from their seats in the stalls to a party with the dancers in the hall's well-named Crush Bar, then continued the marathon whirl at a candlelit coming-out ball given by Hungarian-born Textile Manufacturer...
...bought himself an orchestra, which he called the Beecham Philharmonic but which the rest of the musical world called the "Pillharmonic." After a while, Beecham's father decided to endorse his career, gave him financial backing to form his own opera company and to rent London's Covent Garden opera house, which Beecham Sr. later bought. There Beecham presented some 60 operas unfamiliar to the British public, but still found himself regarded more as a playboy impresario than as a serious conductor. When Beecham's father died, the estate was tied up in litigation, and Thomas soon...
...success. On the strength of it, she was invited to return to San Francisco that year to sing Aïda in place of Antonietta Stella, bedridden with an appendectomy. She had become familiar with the role when she sang it with the Philadelphia Orchestra. A year later at Covent Garden, when Anita Cerquetti was forced to withdraw from Aïda for the same reason, Leontyne again filled in. "My career," says she, "was launched on the appendectomies of Italian sopranos...