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After 42 years on the boards. England's first prima ballerina, Alicia Markova (nee Lilian Marks), 52, ever so casually announced that she was turning in her tutu to teach. Boarding a New York-bound jet at London Airport, the Dresden-fragile dancer, who has been plagued with illness since a tonsillectomy last February, told reporters simply: "My New Year's resolution is to give up active dancing...
...feels part of old Austria's heritage. After attending the Music Conservatory in Prague, he took a Ph.D. at the University there and became assistant conductor at the Prague Opera. He then became conductor and program director for the Prague broadcasting station. Guest conducting took him to Edinburgh, Berlin, Dresden, and Vienna...
...every German child since Karl May invented him a century ago. In a long and fanciful lifetime (1842-1912), May was more than a Zane Grey to Germany, and more a popular moralist than a popular novelist. May became an authority on the wild West without straying from Dresden (where he kept his Villa Shatterhand littered with frontier souvenirs), and May's West was even nobler than the Lone Ranger's. Old Shatterhand (a German immigrant cowboy) brought Teutonic virtue to the plains, shunning six-shooters in favor of his sledgelike fists...
...later, her grandson-another Peter-was killed on the Russian front. Her house in Berlin was bombed out, and so was the one she moved to in Nordhausen. Finally, she settled in the gamekeeper's lodge on an estate in Moritzburg, a half-hour's drive from Dresden...
...Dresden-born and the son of a viola player, Ronnefeld toured Germany in his teens as a concert pianist. Now chief conductor at the Bonn Stadttheater, he has written a handful of other compositions, but The Ant is both his first full-scale opera and his first work to attract wide attention. The boos it also attracts seem to Composer Ronnefeld merely "stupid." To people who read it correctly, he insists, his ant opera "introduces a higher reality...