Word: coventionalism
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...Doubt. Callas at 48, chic in pantsuit or flowing, ankle-length skirt, does not merely walk out on the stage, she takes possession of it, just as she did during her last public performances in 1965 (Tosca at the Met and Covent Garden). With each student, she proceeds as she did last week with Korean Soprano Kyu Do Park. She let her sing all of Mi chiamano Mimi (They call me Mimi) from La Boheme, then went to work, singing phrases back to show how to put meaning into them. When Callas came to the word "Mimi," her rich, smoky...
...incident delayed the signing ceremony for only 50 minutes; it turned out that the woman, a 31-year-old psychologist named Karen Cooper, was protesting the government's handling of an urban renewal project in London's historic Covent Garden market, not Britain's joining the Common Market. But on a day devoted to symbolic ceremony, the affair could be viewed as an unhappy omen of the sort of political accident that can still upset the plans of Britain and its partners on their way to market in Europe...
Back to Rep. The new Figaro is doubly significant as a sign of things to come at Covent Garden. Davis hopes to return the house somewhat to its original conception of a resident repertory company by drawing on a "really good" new generation of British-trained singers. Figaro, for example, boasts several comparative youngsters who had never sung important roles at Covent Garden before the Davis regime (among them Tenor Robert Tear and pearly voiced Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa, who scored a sensation as the Countess). Says Davis: "If I find a dozen first-class singers, we shall have what...
Eventually Davis would like to see an experimental opera center right next door to the opera house, on the present site of the fruit, vegetable and flower market at Covent Garden. Says he: "With its decor and sense of tradition, the opera house creates the wrong sort of atmosphere for experimentation...
...down tiara snobbishness. On the opening night of this season, he coolly appeared in a stage box wearing a sweater. He already has an avid youthful following as a result of his appearances at London's summertime prom concerts, and he hopes to attract the same following to Covent Garden. "I'd like an audience that has less interest in the past and more interest in the present and is an average of 15 years younger...