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...Magic Flute at the Hamburg State Opera. Until that possible day when he sings and acts all the parts in Wagner's Ring cycle, Ustinov's most ambitious operatic venture will be the Don Giovanni he conceived, designed and directed for the opening of the 27th Edinburgh International Festival last week...
Died. Ian Douglas Campbell, 69, eleventh Duke of Argyll and hereditary chief of Scotland's clan Campbell; following a stroke; in Edinburgh. After succeeding to the dukedom in 1949, Campbell shocked his fellow peers by opening the family estate at Inveraray Castle to paying visitors, then appearing in a U.S. magazine ad campaign as a kilt-clad salesman for Argyll socks...
...also kept up her new attachment to the theater. She played both Hippolyta and Titania in a West End production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hedda Gabler at Canterbury, and replaced an ailing Lotte Lenya in a production of the Weill-Brecht The Seven Deadly Sins in Edinburgh. Currently she is starring in a London revival of Show Boat, where her breathy, pulsating Bill is a showboat-stopper. Her musically adventurous nature has also led her to give lieder recitals, try some of Dankworth's offbeat settings of Shakespeare Sonnets and Bach inventions, and sing the role...
Died. Sir Compton Mackenzie, 89, prolific, puckish patriarch of British letters; in Edinburgh. Though successful movies (Sylvia Scarlett, Tight Little Island) were adapted from Mackenzie works, the novel Sinister Street, banned as too risqué when it first appeared in 1913, remained the most popular of his more than 100 books. He wrote controversial nonfiction as well: Greek Memories (1932) earned him a ?100 fine for revealing official documents from his tenure as a World War I intelligence agent, and The Windsor Tapestry (1938) created a sensation with its passionate defense of Edward VIII's abdication. Mackenzie held...
...pomp and circumstance that surrounded Queen Elizabeth's marriage to the Duke of Edinburgh would have greatly pleased her distant ancestor, Charles I, who insisted that "a subject and a sovereign are clean different things." But when the Queen and Prince Philip celebrate their silver wedding anniversary this week, Charles may be twitching in his burial vault at Windsor Castle. As one part of the celebration, Elizabeth has invited to a commemorative service in Westminster Abbey 100 couples from round the realm whose only connection with royalty is that they share Her Majesty's wedding date...