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Perhaps the material does not quite carry a full-length opera, however. There are some slow moments, especially in the beginning, when a home-style funeral takes place. Things pick up with the arrival of Alan Rinsler as Buddy, the son returned from college. His two patter songs about hitchhiking and airplanes are high points in the production. The other members of the cast are also capable, especially Anne Rindlaub as Mom and George Brown as Lou, the cowboy. John Bernard is a sincere Pop with a marvelous farmer accent, and T. T. Meyers is fine as a fiery neighbor...
Boston Museum Director Perry Rathbone feels the money was well spent. Not only are the two paintings the only full-length portraits by Rembrandt now in the U.S., but, says Rathbone, "they seem particularly appropriate for Boston. The Rev. Johannes Elison and his wife were the same kind of Puritans that first came to Massachusetts, very Elder Brewsterish...
...London's Covent Garden last week, the curtain opened on an intriguing pair of firsts: the first all-British full-length ballet, for which Benjamin Britten had composed his first ballet score. It was written especially for Ballerina Svetlana Beriosova, rising young (23) star of the Sadler's Wells Ballet...
...Chicago her presence successfully launched a new opera company in a city which has been death on opera companies for years. Hundreds of ear-hardened operagoers surge around stage doors just for a glimpse of her. Thousands of others have snapped up tens of thousands of the 13 full-length opera recordings that she has made for Italy's Cetra. Britain's E.M.I, (the Angel label...
...Happy, Captain?" At noon Coppola invited me to an enormous lunch of spaghetti, steak, and plenty of strong Neapolitan wine, and unburdened himself: "If the Egyptians have enough men like this pilot, they can easily run the canal." Shiaty was making his third full-length trip in five days. "It's really killing, this work, but we have to do it," he said, nibbling at a sandwich. "It's my country. Wouldn't you do the same?" I asked Wilters, the German, for his opinion. "I better not talk politics," he said...