Word: elvira
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis Post-Dispatch, son of its second editor-publisher, he had been surrounded by art at home from childhood, and had sharpened his taste in four years as a fine arts major. In 1936 Joe Pulitzer made his first leap as a collector, bought Amedeo Modigliani's Elvira Resting at a Table (opposite). For the next two decades he kept buying paintings and sculpture. Today, at 43, Editor-Publisher Pulitzer (he succeeded his late father in 1955) owns about 140 works of art and has become one of the U.S.'s fastest rising collectors. This week...
...both. Except for an Ingres and Van Gogh drawing, a Cézanne oil and a few other late igth century works, the collection consists entirely of contemporary art, ranging from Afro to Vuillard, and including Picasso, Rouault. Matisse, Klee, Braque, MirÓ, Villon, Bonnard, Tamayo. Elvira and another early buy, Max Beckmann's Zeretelli (opposite), are typical of the individual pictorial styles and expressiveness that caught Pulitzer's eye. One of the best painters to come out of Germany in this century, Beckmann did this perceptive portrait of the ballet dancer-prince in 1927 as part...
Soprano Dobbs has traveled as far and fast as her admirers could have hoped, since she bowed at La Scala as Elvira in Rossini's L'ltaliana in Algeri three years ago (TIME, March 16, 1953). In Europe she has appeared before both opera and concert audiences from Stockholm to Mi lan. While studying in Paris she met her husband, a Spanish journalist named Luis Rodriguez, lost him 14 months later (he died of a liver ailment), two days before she was to sing a command performance of Le Cog d'Or at London's Covent...
...Violettas in Traviata), where, before long, she had to learn how to intercept passes from forward tenors without missing a note. For a while, she learned a role a month for TV's Opera Cameos, finally hit the big time two seasons ago when she sang Donna Elvira in the San Francisco Opera's Don Giovanni ("the most exquisitely sung aria of the evening," wrote one critic...
...Giovanni as a red-wigged Donna Elvira, Schwarzkopf first denounced her seducer with flashing temper, then melted into moving sorrow as she realized what sort of fellow the don was. With sure technique, she hushed her eager admirers in the audience until she finished her big Act II aria. As she ended the song, she cupped her hands before her in supplication and got her reward: thunderous applause and cheers during four curtain calls...