Word: directors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...FULLER Associate Director Science for the Blind Bala-Cynwyd...
...assess their true value. Besides paintings (such masterpieces as El Greco's St. Jerome as Cardinal and Rembrandt's The Painter, Gérard de Lairesse) and drawings, the collection includes bronzes, tapestries, ceramics, jewelry and furniture from the 12th to the 20th century. Said Museum Director Thomas Hoving to the 400 guests at the lavish party in honor of the Met's benefactors: "The sad thing is that Robert Lehman himself is not here to announce the news of this extraordinarily munificent gift...
...purely scenic means, the City Opera helped raise Boito to the realm of the abstract. Set Designer David Mitchell and Stage Director Tito Capobianco placed the Prologue not in Heaven but in space. The Epilogue suggests Earth as a dying planet illuminated by the corpse of a setting sun. The production was strongly cast in other major roles. Carol Neblett, a vocally arresting but inexperienced soprano, did both Margherita and Helen of Troy. As Faust, Tenor Robert Nagy sang powerfully but with obvious effort. Julius Rudel's conducting rose successfully to the peaks but tended to coast through...
...supremely good at dramatizing evil. In Carlisle Floyd's Susannah he sang Reverend Blitch, a man of God who fell through lust into destruction; his Mephistopheles in Gounod's Faust is demon masquerading as man; to round off his demonic repertory, New York City Opera General Director Julius Rudel is toying with the idea of producing Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust (in which Treigle would play yet another Mephistopheles) and Busoni's Doktor Faust (in which Treigle would switch roles and appear as Faust, leaving Mephisto to some diabolic tenor...
Shinoda, 39, was fired outright as Ford's director of special-projects design. In dismissing him, says Shinoda, Styling Chief Gene Bordinat explained: "Things just didn't work...