Word: crespin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (London). Conducted by Georg Solti, this Rosenkavalier neatly obliterates its recorded competition. Three lush-voiced ladies (Régine Crespin, Helen Donath and Yvonne Minton) keep the story poised convincingly between spring and autumn and the music teetering tenderly on the verge of tears. The big cast is stuffed with the names of well-loved Viennese singers, as well as the Met's sensational new tenor, Luciano Pavarotti...
Some time before the Winter Olympics, Avery Brundage, president of the International Olympic Committee, accosted Colonel Marceau Crespin, France's director of sports, and asked: "I hear that half the skiers on the French team don't live up to our definition of amateurism. Is that true?" Replied Crespin: "You have been misinformed, Monsieur. No one on the French ski team lives up to your definition." Brundage thought the Frenchman was joking...
...after he imprudently offered it before numerous witnesses to the highest bidder." The Communist daily paper L'Humanité followed with another charge: that Killy last year agreed to use a brand of Italian ski poles exclusively in exchange for an unknown sum of money-and that Crespin later paid the manufacturer $6,000 to keep mum about it. Still other stories circulated that Killy makes up to $75,000 a year out of skiing. Although Killy hotly denied all accusations of professionalism, the International Ski Federation last week launched an investigation to see whether or not Jean-Claude...
...major companies meanwhile survived a pair of backstage cliffhangers and got their seasons smoothly under way. The sets for Seattle's Otello had somehow got onto the wrong ship from Italy, and were put in place only 30 minutes before curtain time. San Francisco Opera Soprano Regine Crespin was forced out of the first-night Gioconda with a throat infection, and Substitute Leyla Gencer (who in past Coast seasons has filled in for Callas and Tebaldi) had to learn one of opera's cruelest roles in less than two weeks...
...slow, deliberate pace illuminates each stroke of genius in the score, but some listeners will find that he has sacrificed passion for clarity and restrained the anguish that Wagner's wild climaxes can evoke. No matter: Jon Vickers' Siegmund is powerful and Régine Crespin's hotoyohos are properly rousing...