Word: diva
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...Opera House, applause still caressing her ears. She fluttered straight into an ambush party of eight process servers, who were there to tag her with summonses in breach-of-contract suits brought against her by a Manhattan lawyer. Windmilling in outrage and trilling furiously in English and Italian, Grand Diva Callas erupted: "Get your hands off me! Don't touch me, don't touch me! Chicago will be sorry for this!" As the servers, aghast at having a tigress by the tail, retreated, La Callas, cheered on by theater employees and fans, bared her fangs...
...clock the next morning, as the early editions thudded on the sidewalks of Broadway, the status of Julie Harris had changed -from rising star to reigning diva. Yet to the hundreds of well-wishers who tramped through her dressing room it was puzzlingly apparent that this diva was perhaps the most improbable mutation of the type since Charlotte Cushman hauled on tights and ranted Romeo to her sister's Juliet...
...Marschallin in Rosenkavalier is too often sung by a fading, overripe diva. But 39-year-old Soprano Schwarzkopf, handsomely filling her boudoir gown, looked blonde and beautiful. In fact, when she broke down and sobbed over her waning youth at the end of Act I, she needed all her acting skill to make the moment convincing. Best of all, her water-pure soprano floated out and illuminated her big scenes...
...Diva Schwarzkopf was handsomely supported in Rosenkavalier by New York City Opera's Contralto Frances Bible and German Bass Baritone Otto Edelmann, in Don Giovanni by Metropolitan Opera Basso Cesare Siepi and Soprano Licia Albanese and the Rochester (N.Y.) Philharmonic's Conductor Erich Leinsdorf in both. Standout: Leo Kerz's imaginative, fluid settings projected behind fixed arches onto a backdrop screen. Ahead for the enterprising San Francisco Opera this season: the U.S. premiere of Sir William Walton's Troilus and Cressida (TIME, Dec. 13), and a revival of Rimsky-Korsakov...
...ruin her son by marrying him. Hildegarde, who has been using Svengali's hypnotism as a sort of aspirin treatment for her headaches, is so unnerved by this classic gambit that she falls completely under Svengali's power. His fell purpose: to make a world-famous diva of her. Morgan searches madly for his lost love until, kicked by a horse, he retires to England and an armchair. Hildegarde, having conquered all Europe with her magic voice (dubbed in by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf), now appears at London's Covent Garden. Morgan rushes to the concert, pits his plain...