Word: gays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maid for Figaro. She turned from the girlish Gilda to the worldly Rosalinda in Fledermaus, and brought that role, until then one of the weakest in the Met's comic hit, up to par or better. As the saucy Musetta in La Bohème, she was gay in her waltz song, movingly sympathetic with the dying Mimi in the last act. Last week she sang her first Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro. Her tone, as ever, was as pure and clear as a mountain stream; her coloratura was as neat as needlepoint. A singing actress who loves...
...Easy Lessons. When General Manager Rudolf Bing first asked Actor Lunt to direct Così, he told him that all he had to do was to make it "light, gay and elegant." Protested Lunt: "You cannot get those opera singers up on their points with six lessons from Madame LaZonga."* But once he had listened to Mozart's elegantly subtle score (unheard at the Met since 1928), Lunt accepted the challenge...
...Light, gay and elegant for its full three hours, it was the best production the Met has put on in a decade. Così has usually been more of a festival favorite than a standard repertory piece. In making a smashing new hit for itself, the Met has also clearly found a new repertory regular -to be played right along with Don Giovanni and The Marriage of Figaro, as it deserves...
Last week some strikingly new intarsia was on display in Manhattan. In place of the elaborate baroque scrolls, shells and garlands of the 16th and 17th Centuries, there were surrealist nudes reclining in desolate plateaus, a composition of pistols and playing cards after William Harnett, gay conglomerations of striped balloons, kites and butterflies-all laid out in marble, malachite, lapis lazuli...
...industrial missions and a dozen churches in working-class districts get most of his concern, and the result is a growing kind of ministry that in his opinion has been all too rare in the Episcopal Church. "We in the church," he says, "have concentrated on the Gay Nineties type of missionary work. We worried about the people in the middle of Africa, but no one bothered to evolve a plan for industrial missions...