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Even more than tenors who try to upstage her, Diva Joan Sutherland dislikes reporters who crowd her. Last week La Stupenda, as her fans call her, hit a low note in her relations with the press...
...northwest in concrete convolutions designed by the famed French architect Le Corbusier. Homemade ghee (clarified butter), which villagers not long ago insisted was the only nourishing cooking medium, is giving way to sealed tins of vegetable oil; kerosene-burning hurricane lanterns are supplanting the traditional Aladdin-like mud diva in peasant huts, and well-to-do farmers often buy a second lantern to hang outside as a sign of affluence. Though most villagers still prefer cooking fires of cow dung, some huts now boast $2 oil stoves. Rural electrification is also spreading, but slowly, with an estimated 80% of India...
RENATA TEBALDI (London). The diva serena had not recorded for two years, but these nine Italian arias, only one of which she had recorded before, bring generally good news of a still-shimmering voice. Not all the high reaches are easily secured, but her warmth, womanliness and pleading pianissimos are most touching in some of the other roles, notably that of the mother in Cilea's L'Arlesiana singing Esser madre è un inferno...
...tape recorders and guarded by an electrified fence that dims the light whenever a stray animal is electrocuted. A family is hiding here from an unspecified "it" that is "moving west." Mother Eileen Heckart mangles French and Italian phrases and listens raptly to off-key recordings of her opera-diva days. She is a Venus's-fly-trap who has devoured "Fa" (he is too contemptible to deserve the other syllable) and dragooned Daughter Lakme (Susan Anspach) and Son Sigfrid (Robert Drivas) into performing strange little rituals like strewing the air with paper petals and striking heraldic poses with...
...Rome Opera canceled her contract for three additional performances. Their mistake. The reason for her hasty exit, said La Callas, was a sore throat, and a Roman court that examined her medical certificates agreed. The opera management now has to honor her original contract and pay the diva $2,800 for the operas she didn't sing. With Callas, even silence is golden...