Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grand Kabuki made its U.S. debut at Manhattan's City Center at the very moment that all Broadway went dark (see SHOW BUSINESS), and comments about its shedding compensating light were inevitable. For this is one of Japan's oldest and greatest theater troupes, to whose dance-and-song-dotted productions Japanese audiences go again and again-as they do in the West to nightclub turns or ballets-to savor particular details, or compare performances, or await dramatic or choreographic high points. Unlike previous Kabuki-type visitors to America, Grand Kabuki, as true Kabuki, consists of all-male...
...Piazza della Scala, past the ornate brown-brick theater with the triple-arched main entrance. She never went in. "I swore," says she, "that I would not enter even as a tourist until I sang there." Last week she entered, singing: at 33 she was making her La Scala debut in Aïda, and the demanding audience recognized almost at once that she would...
...made her grand opera debut in the NBC-TV production of Tosca ("I was the first black Tosca that big audience had seen"), later made her European grand opera debut in Aïda at the Vienna Staatsoper, guided by Conductor Herbert von Karajan. Since then Leontyne has had an uninterrupted string of European successes, particularly in Italy. After La Scala, Soprano Price has one more giant step ahead of her in the U.S.: next season she will sing yet another Verdian role-Leonora in Il Trovatore-in her debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera...
...Conductor Skrowaczewski, 36, became prominent after the war as a vigorous champion of modern music, in rapid succession directed three of Poland's top orchestras, also found time to write four symphonies, a ballet, four string quartets and a score of smaller works. When he made his U.S. debut with the Cleveland Orchestra last season, he was generously cheered by audience, musicians and critics, one of whom reported that the guest conductor left him "spellbound, transfixed, electrified...
...Beinum, the Los Angeles Philharmonic announced the appointment of Hungarian-born Georg Solti, 47, now musical director of the excellent Frankfurt Opera. Solti has guest-conducted most major U.S. orchestras, built a reputation in Europe as a fine interpreter of Mozart and Wagner, next season will make his debut at the Metropolitan Opera conducting a revival of Tannhäuser. But his main enthusiasm, he has said, is symphonic conducting, particularly in the U.S. Says he: "This is the country of the future. And it has a growing music tradition. I like something that is building...