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...Young Woman, by Germany's Georg Kolbe...
FALSTAFF (RCA Victor). With a princely cast that includes Geraint Evans, Giulietta Simionato, Mirella Freni and Rosalind Elias, Verdi's masterwork is sung better than ever before on records. But Conductor Georg Solti does not live up to the Falstaff achieved by Arturo Toscanini in his famous 1950 recording. His beat is too rigid to be helpful to his singers...
Wagner: Siegfried (London). Georg Solti conducts the Vienna Philharmonic and a near-perfect cast (Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen and Joan Sutherland) in the first complete and uncut version of Wagner's magical vision of Teutonic lore...
Born. To Princess Birgitta, 26, onetime gym teacher, granddaughter of Sweden's King Gustaf VI Adolf; and Prince Johann Georg von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, 30, archaeology student: their second child, first daughter; in Munich. Name: Désirée Margarethe Victoria Louise Sybilla Katharina Maria...
...Nathaniel Merrill strewed the huge cast across it like pistachio shells; Katherine Dunham firmly fixed a rhinestone in every navel within reach and made her debut as a Met choreographer nothing more than a tawdry reminder of her old Haitian dance suites. Uniformly brave performances and sensitive conducting by Georg Sold were not enough to counteract such problems, and Verdi's tragedy sank into the goo without a tear...