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...Directors have generally been content either to substitute handsome actors for the singers supplying the sound track or simply to shoot a stage production. A breakthrough came in 1975, when Ingmar Bergman produced a charming The Magic Flute that began in a replica of Stockholm's 18th century Drottningholm Court Theater and from time to time moved beyond the confines of the stage. Even more ambitious was Joseph Losey's mesmeric Don Giovanni (1979), expansively set amid the Palladian splendors of northern Italy...
Married. Prince Bertil of Sweden. 64; and his close friend of 33 years. Lilian Craig, 61, a British commoner; he for the first time, she for the second; in Drottningholm Palace, just outside Stockholm...
...throne. The new King decided that his still unmarried uncle had put duty before matrimony long enough. Last week, blessed with his nephew's consent, Prince Bertil, now 64, and Lilian Craig, 61, announced a new phase to their 33-year romance-marriage, on Dec. 7, at Drottningholm Castle near Stockholm...
...modern botany, Carolus Linnaeus, studied in the 18th century. ("God created," say the tidy Swedes. "Linnaeus put things in order.") Stockholm cops, though issued guns during Khrushchev's visit, normally cling grimly to their accustomed sabers. Proud Viking longboats are lovingly preserved in an Oslo museum. At Drottningholm, a summer palace across Malaren Lake from Stockholm, 18th century operas are staged for the public with their original sets in the only surviving court theater of the period...
...Drottningholm is more than just a period piece. Its talent scouts range the country to seek out new voices, and its stage provides a training ground for the best of them. The theater gave Elisabeth Soederstrom her start when she was fresh out of school, helped Kerstin Meyer prepare for her U.S. debut in Carmen this fall. Even Sweden's established stars -Birgit Nilsson, Set Svanholm, Jussi Bjoerling-owe some of their development and much of their musical education to the Drottningholm Theater...