Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than just a period piece. Its talent scouts range the country to seek out new voices, and its stage provides a training ground for the best of them. The theater gave Elisabeth Soederstrom her start when she was fresh out of school, helped Kerstin Meyer prepare for her U.S. debut in Carmen this fall. Even Sweden's established stars -Birgit Nilsson, Set Svanholm, Jussi Bjoerling-owe some of their development and much of their musical education to the Drottningholm Theater...
...belongs to a great lieder singer, a standout oratorio performer (Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Handel's Messiah), and a star of such operas as La Gioconda and Medea. The singer: Eileen Farrell. probably the finest dramatic soprano in the U.S., who will make her Met debut next season in Gluck's Alceste...
...fondest dreams," will sing the basso profundo role of Don Basilic in a charity performance of The Barber of Seville with a Manhattan opera company early next year. Signora Buitoni. an ex-coloratura soprano who knows all about Giovanni's booming arias, will attend his operatic debut. "After that," quipped Buitoni. "she will probably fly to Europe to avoid the noise." . . . Winging into Paris' Orly Airport, Boston Matron Rose Kennedy, 70. was forthwith thrust into a quarter-hour TV interview, proved as nimble as Son Jack in verbal fencing-although one listener described her French...
...into politics because Joe died," he explained later, "if anything happened to me tomorrow, my brother Bobby would run for my seat in the Senate, and if Bobby died, Teddy would take over for him." In the family war councils it was decided that Jack should make his political debut in the congressional race for Boston's Eleventh District-a Democratic citadel that includes Cambridge and Harvard, but is largely made up of slums and the middle-class Irish and Italian wards of East Boston. It was home ground for Honey Fitz, and the area where Joe Kennedy...
...canon. The second is the lack-luster playing of the king and his companions (save Richard Waring's well-spoken Antonio), of whom Loring Smith's Alonzo and O. Z. Whitehead's Sebastian are embarrassingly inept. Still, the show is a striking success for William Ball in his directorial debut for the Festival...