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...pixie with astonishing gusto, shares this illusion, which provides the revue with its life. She sings about the lost wonder of Xanadu, the time when man could think of no limit on his life but death, as if she had just flown in from there in time for the curtain...
...worked for him, Bing has a quick quip for all. Stokowski? "He went around the house correcting the way people pronounced each other's names." Reiner? "Not among the naturally light-at-heart." Bernstein? "He wanted us to do Cav after Pag, to give him the final curtain." Szell? "He was a nasty man, God rest his soul. I remember somebody once said to me, 'George Szell is his own worst enemy.' I said, 'Not while I am alive...
...engaged her in 1965 for two Toscas), Bing regards her Met debut in 1956 in Norma as "the most exciting of all such in my time at the Metropolitan." Bing also recalls Callas' husband and manager Battista Meneghini, who insisted on being paid in cash before the curtain rose every night. Callas' fee then was $1,000. "Toward the end," recalled Bing, "I had him paid in five-dollar bills, to make a wad uncomfortably large for him to carry...
...historical perspective of Steinbeck.) Yet Joseph Ruggiero's production makes a valiant attempt at depicting Steinbeck's mastery of human suffering. Four actors in particular almost capture the sense of feeling in Steinbeck. Robert Jacobson, as Lennie, plods through Act I with a disappointing facade of imitation. When the curtain rises in Act II, Jacobson comes alive and displays a brilliance equalled only by one other actor. The sensitivity which Jacobson finally brings to the play is masterfully manipulated in his physical movements. The delicate stroking of his fingers and the emotional outbursts at the deaths...
...most obvious alteration in Capobianco's new production is the elimination of the brief epilogue in which Hoffmann is found in a drunken stupor, overwhelmed by his failures. Instead, the final curtain goes to the triumphant Dr. Miracle, who has just caused the poor Antonia to sing herself to death. In one of the chanciest bits of operatic stagecraft seen in New York in years, Dr. Miracle miraculously pops up on the outer rail of the orchestra pit, towers spectacularly over the conductor, and laughs his final laugh of evil victory...