Word: debut
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...repertory. But the snub did not hinder the progress of Farrell's career or silence the critics, who acclaimed her the U.S.'s top soprano. Finally, a year ago, Bing and the Met beckoned, and last week before a packed house Soprano Farrell, 40, made her Met debut in an English version of Christoph Willibald von Gluck's Alcestis. Soprano Farrell proved clearly that she belonged on the Met stage, but alas, there were also hints that her debut may have come a little too late...
...Soprano Farrell proved only a partial blessing. In the middle range her voice is still gloriously warm, rich and powerful, as moving as any voice heard in opera today. But in the upper registers it was strained and at times shrill. Once past the strenuous milestone of a Met debut, Farrell is now eagerly awaiting La Gioconda, her other Met starring role this season. "Gioconda," she says confidently. "That's a role you can really sink your teeth into...
Some 500 guests converged on the White House at week's end to meet the two nieces of Mamie Eisenhower at the first coming-out party to be held in the executive mansion since 1910. The previous occasion: the debut of President Wil liam Howard Taft's daughter Helen. The cream of official Washington society, in what is likely to be Mamie's swan song as White House hostess, met Ellen Moore, 19, and Mamie Eisenhower Moore, 18, daughters of the First Lady's sister, M. (for Mabel) Frances Moore. Reminiscing about her own White House...
...Dallas Opera to be one of the most enterprising in the country (despite its short, three-week season) or because the production of the all but forgotten Handel work showed a nice Texas feeling for musical antiques. Above all, the evening served to frame the long-awaited U.S. debut of Australian-born Soprano Joan Sutherland, one of opera's fastest-rising new stars...
...role of Ruggiero, Mezzo Blanche Thebom flawlessly handled the difficult vocal and dramatic task of portraying a knight who, bewitched by a Circe-like enchantress, has forgotten his past but is gradually regaining his memory. British Mezzo Monica Sinclair, also making her U.S. debut, displayed a fierce, darkly colored voice, matched at every turn by the other principals-U.S. Soprano Joan Marie Moynagh, Italy's Luigi Alva and Nicola Zaccaria. The star of the evening, though, was Sutherland, and she amply lived up to the reputation that had preceded her (TIME, June 13). Her range was wide, secure...