Word: coventionalism
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...right) for fear audiences would watch for him to favor it. But what specially irked London balletomanes was that Nureyev had already scheduled appearances with the American Ballet Theatre in Chicago during the Christmas season, and would rest up until then. He will not reappear at Covent Garden until mid-January, an absence that has forced postponement of Frederick Ashton's long-awaited new ballet, Marguerite and Armand, written specially for Nureyev and Fonteyn. Said one riled and exasperated Covent Garden official: "I'd rather deal with ten Callases than one Nureyev...
Behind all this retrenchment, the restraining hand of the British is visible. Says Henry R. Moore, vice chairman of London's Second Covent Garden Property Co., a director of Britain's Philip Hill group, and the Englishman in charge of keeping watch on Zeckendorf: "The program is to spend the next three to five years developing the property we now have. We have absolutely no intention of making any further purchases." Zeckendorf says he feels the same way. With the British holding a veto in Zeckendorf Property, he could hardly say otherwise. Besides, after all those years...
...clamorous dismay of a musical world that has hailed her as La Stupenda, Coloratura Joan Sutherland, 35, announced that she would have to suspend her operatic career for up to six months because of a two-year-old spinal disk ailment. Though she stoically plans to complete her current Covent Garden contract and the spring season at La Scala in a steel-ribbed corset, the strapping, handsome Australian will have to abandon a scheduled summer tour of her native land to undergo medical treatment in her Swiss villa. "Only when that is finished," said she, "can I make any decision...
...planned on a business career. He had worked up to tool buyer for the Hudson's Bay Co. department store when the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto heard of him and gave him a three-year scholarship, starting a career that led him at last to Covent Garden and a stunning success as Aeneas in Berlioz' The Trojans (TIME, June 17, 1957). A firm believer in the equal importance of acting and singing. Vickers is passionate and convincing as Otello, Don Jose in Carmen, Florestan in Fidelio and Siegmund in Die Walkure. His big, shining voice, surging...
...unwholesome reputation succinctly summed up by Soprano Joan Sutherland when she recently canceled a performance with him. Del Monaco was, said she, "far too noisy a tenor." It is true that Del Monaco, who began his singing career in the Italian army and made his big-time debut at Covent Garden, likes to shout down the opposition, and that he is often tight and rasping in the middle and lower registers. But his top register can be glorious, and he often makes up in sheer strength and virility for what he lacks in sensuous sound or vocal finesse...