Word: debut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Leonard Bernstein and Franco Zeffirelli making their Metropolitan Opera debut together in a new production of Verdi's Falstaff, the Met was sure of a sensation. What kind of sensation was a different matter. Bernstein, never one to conceal any possible hidden talents, had not conducted in a major opera house in nine years. Zeffirelli, whose last crack at New York was a disastrous Broadway flop (The Lady of the Camellias), had signed on as director, set designer and costumer in a house where all three jobs are notoriously difficult. But when the curtains parted last week...
After dark Münchners and tourists flock to the Eve Bar, where Mandy Rice-Davies recently made her professional debut (as a singer) and dress-busting B-girls quaff French champagne while nudes stroll through a cage full of tigers. Aleco's, headquarters for the sports-car set, has walls hung with a Scots tartan, sells Scotch for only 50½ a drink. As the jukebox blares, the patrons-clad in everything from Dior gowns to dungarees-stomp through the hully gully. Munich's promiscuity is an unleering sort, and only during Fasching does it become objectionable...
Whatever she wants, she seemingly gets, and the very persistence of the Caldwell approach was so intriguing that Joan Sutherland gladly gave up two weeks in the heart of the concert season to prepare for her U.S. stage debut in the role. Through artful cajolery and the promise of a creative hand in the production, Caldwell had both Sutherland and her husband, Richard Bonynge, working at double time. The results showed it: though normally a phlegmatic actress, Sutherland made Bellini's gloriously mad Elvira anguished and giddy, impish and frenzied, wild-eyed and playful. Showing a new command...
...companies across the country are shown in the adjoining color portfolio. An index of how advanced the movement has now become is the fact that New York is catching up with it. Biggest event of the 1963-64 theatrical season was the debut last month of the Repertory Theater of Lincoln Center...
...couple of dark horses. A two-mile field paced by Tom O'Rlordan, who won the event in 1962, and national 5000-meter record holder Peter McArdle might get some competition from sophomore star Walt Hewlett, the All-American cross-country runner who's making his indoor debut...