Word: debutants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Onegin he went home mad, but rarely as mad as he was the night he saw Dmitry Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. "Gnashing and screeching, crude, primitive, vulgar," Pravda roared, having prudently reconsidered a published opinion that called the opera "a triumph" after its 1934 debut two years before. Shostakovich withdrew the opera, and off and on over the years, he set to work at revision...
Died. Amelita Galli-Curci, 81, Italian-born coloratura soprano, one of the last survivors of the "golden age" of opera singers, a tiny Milanese with a flutelike voice who was a sensation at her 1908 debut in Rigoletto at Trani (a provincial Italian town where she was paid $60 a month), moved to the U.S. in 1916 to sing the great coloratura roles (Rosina, Lucia, Lakmé) with both the Metropolitan and Chicago Operas earning up to $15,000 a performance while on tour, retired in the 1930s to California but continued through her many recordings to haunt opera buffs...
...Broadway. More and more people are doing something about it. From Minneapolis to Washington, San Francisco and Oklahoma City, the list of regional rep companies continues to grow. And in the city that Sir Thomas Beecham once called an "esthetic dustbin," the Seattle Repertory Theater has just begun its debut season...
...cold type next day, his speech read creditably enough. But on both sides of the House there was agreement that the Prime Minister's eagerly awaited Commons debut had been a disappointing performance...
...fallout was still raining down from that after-debut brawl that left a Southampton, L.I., mansion in ruins and resulted in indictments for 14 young socialites. To make sure that nothing like that happens to her again, Fernanda Wanamaker Wetherill, 18, and her parents have called off a second coming-out party, which was to be held at Christmastime in a Philadelphia hotel. The money will go to a local boys' school-"a much better cause," allowed her stepfather. Said Fern: ".It was the only thing to do. This whole deb business is getting me down...