Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still has not decided how much extra salary the Met will have to pay its orchestra this year-there were still more hopeful omens on the second night of the season. In Mozart's Cost Fan Tutte, Connecticut's Teresa Stich-Randall made a long-overdue Metropolitan debut as Fiordiligi, displayed the purity, fullness and control that have won her ardent fans in Europe and on records. In the same opera, Negro Tenor George Shirley, 27, last year's Metropolitan Opera Auditions winner, filled in on short notice in the role of Ferrando, carried off the assignment...
...pieces are among the best of welded sculpture; and Painter Adolph Gottlieb, whose canvases -usually some sort of calm circular form hovering near a frenetic, torn-looking shape-are getting to be a bit repetitious. Curiously, it was the two second-prize winners ($1,500) who simultaneously made their debut in the big time...
Homage to Jacqueline. A strange, doll-like portrait shows his little daughter Paloma poking at some presents under a Christmas tree. His present wife Jacqueline makes her debut in 1954. One of the early portraits of her is a straightforward drawing of enormous tenderness. The final plate in the book is of a painting of three eels on a table. Picasso did it last year just after Jacqueline had cooked some eels for his lunch. On the back he wrote: "Homage to Jacqueline for a matelote that she prepared for lunch 3.12.60. offering to her through this painting a small...
Milk and Honey (book by Don Appell; music and lyrics by Jerry Herman; choreography by Donald Saddler) takes a troupe of middle-aged U.S. widows on a tour of Israel in an open search for second love. Making her Broadway musical debut, thimble-sized Molly Picon, 63, is cast as a wily matchmaker who never forgets to bait her own hook. Comedienne Picon mock-droops an eyelid, smacks her lips together as if they were their own best friends, and in the archly mingled inflections of Cupid and cupidity queries each promising male: "What line are you in?" Robert Weede...
...they will appear together in Berlin in Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro, as well as in subsequent performances of Alkmene. They are determined to return to the U.S. only on their own terms-preferably at the Metropolitan Opera. At the time of his wife's Berlin debut, Stewart presented her with a mink stole. For the Met, he explains, "it will be full length...