Word: coventionalism
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...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...
...tailor, Joan Sutherland took no formal voice lessons until she was 18. In 1950 she won $2,800 in an Australian singing contest, headed for Britain to study at London's Royal College of Music and landed a $28-a-week small-parts job at London's Covent Garden. She "jogged along" until 1958, when she became an overnight sensation in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor...
...season opened with a downpour outside London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. As they emerged from separate limousines, Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Margaret and Princess Alexandra, opulently gowned, bejeweled and tiara-topped, struck strikingly similar attitudes and expressions before dashing under the marquee in the escort of an umbrella-holding doorman. Several days later, Elizabeth had a far closer call from an overhead peril. Ordinarily, when she flies in her own realm, her air travel is known as a "purple flight," and all aircraft must avoid her route by ten miles. Flying back home from...