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...symphonist (he has composed six symphonies), he waited until he was 51 to write his first ballet score (Old King Cole); at 69 he composed his first film score (49th Parallel). Last week, at 78, the famed old doyen of English composers finally made his first bow in Covent Garden with an opera...
After three churchly hours in Covent Garden last week, most of the audience agreed that summarize it did-even if it added little that was new. In Progress they heard the best and worst of Vaughan Williams, from reedy English pastoral melodies to great splatterings of brass. They gave the composer an ovation, but they also had to agree with one elderly dowager that Progress was "rather monotonous for opera, wasn...
...University of Barcelona law student who is now her personal manager, Victoria says she would really like just to "sit in our house in Barcelona." She has small chance. After a second Manhattan recital this month she will fly to Paris for a concert, then to London's Covent Garden to sing in Manon, La Bohème and Lohengrin, then on to La Scala...
There are few names that oldtime opera lovers care to mention in the same breath with Caruso and Scotti, but Claudia Muzio (1892-1936) is one of them. The daughter of an Italian operatic stage manager, she grew up backstage in London's Covent Garden, Manhattan's Metropolitan. Caruso, with whom she made a stunning U.S. debut as Tosca in 1916, once said that Claudia "knew all of our stage tricks before she wore long skirts." She had a voice to match her acting: she could, and did, sing coloratura, lyric and dramatic soprano parts with equal ease...
...Edinburgh Festival a fortnight ago, it seemed to Directress Lucia Chase (TIME, May 8) that "everybody liked everything"; Edinburgh's Lord Provost sent an enthusiastic thank you to Harry Truman, who had given his blessing to the tour. Last week, after a Ballet Theatre opener at Covent Garden, the London Daily Mail solemnly observed that the U.S.'s No. 1 ballet company was "what is popularly known...