Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ELIZABETH O. DEAN...
Sakaki & Sake. There were 869 carefully selected guests in the outer garden of the shrine, including 37 former peers, Premier Kishi and his Cabinet, a Nobel Prizewinning physicist, the farmer who last year grew the most rice per acre, and only one foreigner-Mrs. Elizabeth Gray Vining, the American Quaker who was the prince's tutor from...
...vocal beauty: the sweetly melancholy string sextet that serves as an overture; the delicately interlaced trio in which Musician, Poet and Countess comment on the Poet's sonnet; the Countess' hushed mirror monologue at the close, with its spun-silver vocal tracery. The performers-notably sopranos Elizabeth Schwarzkopf and Anna Moffo, baritones Hans Hotter and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau-sing superbly under Conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch. In its flashing orchestral coloration and its soaring vocal lines, Capriccio is an echo of some of the great works of Strauss's youth. At its dress rehearsal the 78-year-old composer...
...Alizon (Elizabeth Commager) portrays loveable and loving innocence with ingratiating charm. She casts a golden glow over the company, and knows how to be still and still radiant. But her lover, Richard (Richard Watson), fails to hold up his end as the youthful son of the parish poor box. For this reason their third act love scene is somewhat less than effective...
...Elizabeth Theiler's superb choreography highlights the show. Indeed, every scene is a dance scene, and the dances are all imaginatively conceived if not always admirably executed. The brightest spot in the performance comes late in the third act when a waiter (Philip Burnham) announces "Pepe and Lolita with the Tango," and tall Wes Thum and the petite Elizabeth Theiler run through an hilarious take-off on the "tragic" dance routine...