Word: coventionalism
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...when they were named heirs designate to the artistic direction of London's Royal Opera at Covent Garden, Conductor Colin Davis and Director Peter Hall announced that they planned "to turn the opera house upside down." By this fall, when their appointments were to take effect, what had been turned upside down was their plans. Hall had pulled out of the partnership on short notice, having decided that the opera would take too much time from his film and stage commitments. Davis was left to carry on alone, with no intention of finding another partner. "When you have been...
...Krassinsky-made her a target of the Bolsheviks, who sacked her St. Petersburg mansion during the 1917 revolution. Forced to flee the country in 1920, she later established a studio in Paris, where she taught for 35 years. Kschessinska was 63 when her farewell performance at London's Covent Garden received 18 curtain calls...
...publishing firm in Indianapolis. And Bubbles? Bubbles did indeed become an opera star, and a smart one at that. She became, in fact, one of the biggest opera stars the U.S. has ever produced. She sang leading roles at the world's great opera houses, from La Scala to Covent Garden to San Francisco, commanded top fees of $10,000 for concert performances and made recordings that turned into classical bestsellers. She became a $300,000-a-year, one-woman industry and, at the same time, the finest singing actress since Maria Callas. And because...
BESIDES Beverly Sills, the other leading heiress to Maria Callas' artistic legacy is the Australian coloratura soprano Joan Sutherland. Sutherland, 45, sings many of the same roles as Sills and, like Sills, was a late bloomer-she burst onto the international scene with a Lucia di Lammermoor at Covent Garden in 1959. Otherwise the two are a study in contrasts: separate conjugations of greatness. Each has her passionate following. Ask a Sutherland admirer about Sills' voice and he might say, "Pretty, but thin." Ask a Sillsian about Sutherland and he might retort, "Beautiful, but boring." Still, all would...
...piano accompanist for his father Jan Kubelik, the noted Czech violinist, but he comes to his present job after international success as a guest conductor and a long career as a music director of the Czech Philharmonic, the Brno Opera House, Britain's Royal Opera House at Covent Garden and, most recently, the Bavarian Radio Symphony in Munich...