Word: debutitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used to imagine her dream man: he would have the voice of a Beniamino Gigli and the build of a Clark Gable. As she grew older, she developed a superb soprano voice and a tall (5 ft. 10 in.), statuesque build. Last week world-famous Soprano Tebaldi made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera opposite Tenor Mario Del Monaco (5 ft. 8½ in.), who-though highly gifted-is neither a Gigli in voice nor a Gable in height. Soprano Tebaldi (as Desdemona) seemed to tower over Tenor Del Monaco (as Otello). At a particularly tender moment in Verdi...
...varsity earned its other points on a decision by Jim Dale (157), a pin by Phil Burnaman (137), who is making his debut with the team this season, and a draw match by Bob Gilmor (167). In typical procedure, the team had to rebound from lightweight defeats to overtake the Lions...
...still news when a Negro stars in grand opera, even in a role calling for a dark skin. Marian Anderson's Metropolitan Opera debut as the Negro Ulrica, in Un Ballo in Maschera (TIME, Jan. 17), made fortissimo headlines, and this week Baritone Robert McFerrin is causing another stir at the Met by singing the Ethiopian king Amonasro in Aida. The NBC Opera Theater was even bolder: this week it cast Leontyne Price, 26, as the Italian opera singer Tosca...
...instead discovered her voice ("All of a sudden you open your mouth and begin"). She won a Juilliard scholarship, decided to try an opera career despite the fact that at most a dozen roles in the standard repertory are usually considered "suitable" for female Negro singers. After a rousing debut in a Juilliard production of Falstaff, Soprano Price won the lead in the world-traveling revival of Porgy and Bess. (She later married her leading man, Baritone William Warfield...
...BLACK PRINCE, by Shirley Ann Grau (294 pp.; Knopf; $3.50), is the most impressive U.S. short story debut between hard covers since J. D. Salinger's Nine Stories (1953). Only 25, daughter of an old New Orleans family, Author Grau describes herself as "a thoroughly ordinary sort of person." Her book proves she. is not, at least not when she settles down before her typewriter. Sticking to what she knows, she tells of Southerners, black and white, of their problems and of the ordinary pressures of common experience. But Author Grau makes ordinariness seem pressing. At least three...