Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teresa made her debut in her father's restaurant at four, singing Pistol-Packin' Mama. At 15, she was singing in Toronto dives. "If you learn to hold an audience of drunks who would rather be noisy, you can surely hold people at the Met who pay to hear you," she says. She saw her first opera at 16, when Renata Tebaldi sang La Bohème's Mimi in Toronto. At 20, she outsang 2,000 contestants to win the annual audition and a contract at the Metropolitan Opera...
First for the ladies of the company, each one a pleasure to the eye and ear. As Polly, Catherine Winn makes her debut in Harvard drama, and she is a welcome addition. She possesses that rare combination of first-rate acting ability and a beautiful lyric soprano, and she knows how to balance the two. Her sweet, artless Polly could soften even the hardest highwayman's heart, and we easily understand Macheath's impetuous marriage vows...
Stokowski is making his debut in Phase4 Stereo, a recording technique involving, among other abracadabra, 20 mikes and a 20-channel mixer. The effects are sensuous, sonically exhilarating and unnatural. The listener feels as if he were floating almost as close to the solo violin as the bow itself, while Phase 5, the last stage of the mixing, goes on between his ears...
ALCOA PREVIEW (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Behind the scenes with Virna Lisi as she made How to Murder Your Wife, and with Tommy Steele as he prepares for his Broadway debut in the musical Half a Sixpence...
...Debut at 20. Jeanne was a good student until she was 16, but then she lost interest in school. Her father had forbidden her to go to the theater, but the theater was all that her friends talked about. One day she lied her way out of the house, went off to see Jean Anouilh's Antigone. "It had a tremendous effect on me," she recalls. "It was the first time I had ever seen actors, ever seen a real play, and I was overwhelmed." Jeanne eventually confided her fascination to her mother, who complained to a neighbor...