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...their days together at Britain's Royal Ballet. There is something basically appealing about a tribute from one artist to another, and the principal role would seem to be tailor-made for the mature genius of Dame Margot, now 52. She plays a turn-of-the-century operatic diva who meets and dazzles a younger man (Egon Madsen) at a cocktail party. Then, in a swirling dream sequence, she recalls the four great loves of her past. Realizing that amour is now beyond her, she sends the youth away and stands alone onstage with her memories as the curtain...
...turned into a decent ballet, but not as Cranko has tarted it up. Poème inconsistently wobbles between crude parody-guests at the party flounce offstage in a way that was clearly meant to be amusing-and lush sentimentalism. The four lithe male dancers who play the diva's lovers are coyly dressed in skintight body stockings and continually swirl enormous Art Nouveau capes about themselves like pretend matadors at a gay beach...
Divorced. By Maria Callas, 47, tempestuous actress and opera diva: Giovanni Battista Meneghini, 75, Italian industrialist; after 22 years of marriage, the last twelve of which were spent in separation; in Brescia, Italy, following passage of a new Italian law allowing couples who have been legally separated for five years to divorce...
...think I'm Onassis' best friend, and he's mine," said Diva Maria Callas, who descended on New York City and told Women's Wear Daily a thing or three. About her best friend's wife: "I'm bored with all the nonsense about how I was furious with Jacqueline Onassis. The fact is, I've never actually met her." About love: "Love is so much patience between two people. But it takes work, and you have to give a lot, and have to receive also like a flower. It is also somewhat...
...even more of a showpiece for Beverly Sills than the film was for Bette Davis. Absent from the New York stage for more than a century, the opera was revived especially for Sills by the company's director, Julius Rudel. He conducted it adoringly and surrounded his prima diva with an all-star cast headed by Mezzo Beverly Wolff, Baritone Louis Quilico and, of course, Domingo. Amply returning the favor, Sills proved again that she is unsurpassed as a coloratura. With gestures ranging from near-hysteric twitching to imperious slaps, she brought the Virgin Queen's tragedy...