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City Opera's ex-diva restores it to vitality and stability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Champagne Time for Beverly Sills | 10/29/1984 | See Source »

AMERICANS IN PARIS or parisians in America are nothing new. The results have run the gamut from Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron waltzing past Dufyseque backdrops to the glitzy elegance of Diva to alas the little croissant establishment that is slowly swallowing up Harvard Square. Bob Swaim's new movie, La Balance, rates somewhere in between. While it takes place en frangais, the director seems to want to keep reminding us that it is American with its raucous combination of quick action violence coupled with seamy loves scenes. That desire turns out to be about as subtle as Clint Eastwood...

Author: By Hanne-maria Maijala, | Title: Foregone Conclusion | 2/3/1984 | See Source »

...Adriatic. And this resplendent collection of egocentrics and neurasthenics is here to see that her wish is fulfilled with due theatrical effect and a sufficiency of false emotion. As they see it, the death of one obscure archduke is inconsequential in comparison to the loss of the diva. Indeed, they have an archduke of their very own aboard, grossly overweight, of garbled sexuality, and attended by a large and mysterious retinue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Voyage of the Damned Fools | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

Galas. Or: The Life and Hard Times of Maria Callas. Leave it to off-off-Broadway's Charles Ludlam-playwright, producer, director and, in the title role, every inch a diva-to put the art back into commedia dell'arte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: THE BEST OF 1983: Theater | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

Beverly Sills, 54, director of the New York City Opera and retired diva, on the fact that she does not sing at all now, not even in the shower: "My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 18, 1983 | 7/18/1983 | See Source »

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