Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soprano was the daughter of a Negro carpenter from Laurel, Miss. The tenor was the son of a naval engineer from Ancona, Italy. Together on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera last week, Leontyne Price, 30, and Franco Corelli, 36, provided the most exciting debut night of the Met season. Their joint assignment: Leonora and Manrico in Verdi's Il Trovatore...
...female lead in Porgy and Bess. A Juilliard alumna, she turned from musical comedy to grand opera in an NBC-TV production of Tosca, was soon making guest appearances with the San Francisco opera. But it was in Europe that her career really caught fire. She made her European debut in Aïda in 1958, at the Vienna Staatsoper under Herbert von Karajan, has since sung in most of Europe's leading houses, including La Scala. This year at the Met she will also appear in Aïda, Butterfly, Turandot and Don Giovanni. On hand...
...nickname of "Golden Calves" ("I just love Franco," says Leontyne Price. "He has such gorgeous legs"). Moreover, the golden calves support a 6 ft. 2 in., 180-lb. frame and a classically handsome head that qualify Corelli as the best-looking hunk of tenor now singing.* In his Met debut he demonstrated that he also has a voice. Somewhat tight at the beginning of the evening, it loosened up and reached explosive power as the acts rolled on. If Corelli proved to be a limited actor of the smite-the-brow school, he also promised to put some...
...generation all-star cast: Lady* Jayne Seymour (Henry) Fonda, Tarquin (Laurence) Olivier, Maria (Gary) Cooper, Jenny Ann (Ingrid Bergman) Lindstrom. Her own parents were Actress Margaret Sullavan and Producer Leland Hayward. Last week, with most of the class doing post-graduate work†,Brooke Hayward, 23, made her TV debut on the U.S. Steel Hour, walking prettily through a preposterous play about a convict's revolt in an Australian penal colony. More than a promising newcomer to acting, she is something of a Scott Fitzgerald throw-back-the golden girl with "a voice full of money"-and a case...
...familiar figure in Milan and an accepted operatic star all over Europe, but her career developed slowly. As a youngster in Turin, she studied singing, was later told that her voice was too frail for opera, and decided to become a concert singer. After her concert debut in 1950, she won a few operatic parts (Lucy in The Telephone, Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro), did not really get launched until Herbert von Karajan cast her in the role of Frasquita in a 1955 production of Carmen at La Scala. After that, Sciutti opened every season at La Piccola Scala...