Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, after five years on the outskirts of her ambition, Soprano Mary Costa finally made it to the Met, and her debut was one of the rare victories of art over advertising. It was also among the season's most difficult. Without the comfort of a single stage rehearsal in one of opera's most treacherous roles, she sang La Traviata's Violetta only three weeks after Joan Sutherland's Met debut in the same role. With La Stupenda's triumph still fresh in mind, the critics expected only a nice try from...
...women's clubs and speaking the part of Sleeping Beauty in Walt Disney's movie. But soon she was selling cars on TV, where her Greer Garson beauty and Grace Kelly style quickly made her one of the best in the business. She made her opera debut in Los Angeles in 1958 after Jack Benny talked her into taking herself seriously; he would, he said, gladly have junked his career to become a concert violinist if only he had the talent...
Costa has been a star of the San Francisco Opera ever since her debut there in 1959, but her voice has developed remarkably in the past two or three seasons. She is a strong lyric soprano with an agile coloratura range, giving her an easy facility in a wide reach of the soprano repertoire. In New York the critics found it hard to keep their minds on her singing because of her dazzling beauty. The Met, they suggested, could use some dazzlers...
Last week the main attraction was just a singer, without props, and reasonably dressed. But the place was full. Mandy Rice-Davies of London was making her show biz debut...
Adopted at 30. The man responsible for the company's success is Billy Prince, a brash, bouncy executive who reads poetry in his spare time, once wanted to be a schoolteacher. Prince had an unusual debut into meat packing. Born William Wood, he was adopted at 30 by Cousin Frederick H. Prince, an 81-year-old Boston banker who had no sons he thought able to take over his $150 million holdings. At Prince's request, Billy Wood took his cousin's name and a trustee's job, supervised a spread of trusts that eventually included...