Word: coventionalism
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...Audit in Paradise. The real issue was not top talent or a top house like La Scala. Virtually all opera companies outside the U.S. are publicly subsidized (London's Covent Garden gets $700,000 annually). La Scala's $1,200,000 subsidy is not out of line considering its box-office take of $2,000,000 and its ambitious program: 180 annual performances of 30 different operas, including eight new productions and four premiered works, plus concerts and ballets. More extravagant was the $1,200,000 subsidy to the Rome Opera in 1955, when it took in only...
...London's Covent Garden last week, the curtain opened on an intriguing pair of firsts: the first all-British full-length ballet, for which Benjamin Britten had composed his first ballet score. It was written especially for Ballerina Svetlana Beriosova, rising young (23) star of the Sadler's Wells Ballet...
...Stockholm to Mi lan. While studying in Paris she met her husband, a Spanish journalist named Luis Rodriguez, lost him 14 months later (he died of a liver ailment), two days before she was to sing a command performance of Le Cog d'Or at London's Covent Garden. She went on (as the Queen of Shema-khan) despite the tragedy, now thinks "singing helped...
Mattiwilda (a contraction of the names of her maternal grandmother) made her U.S. stage debut with the San Francisco Opera a year ago, was back in Covent Garden last February when word came that the Met wanted her to sing four Gildas this season. She was asked to keep it a secret until the opera made the announcement, so her only celebration was to sing "especially well that night...
Fair Lady is not all Rex Harrison. Producer Herman Levin has outfitted it sumptuously with Cecil Beaton costumes and Oliver Smith sets, had Hanya Holm contrive romping dances under Covent Garden's soaring arches. Stanley Holloway, a hook-nosed veteran of British music halls, makes Eliza's father an uproarious Shavian tribute to the "undeserving poor." Harrison's costar, a 20-year-old English girl named Julie Andrews, plays the role of the flower girl with heart-lifting simplicity. Switching convincingly from whining cockney to fluting aristocrat, she is raucous as she squawks her indignation...