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...Farrell's career or silence the critics, who acclaimed her the U.S.'s top soprano. Finally, a year ago, Bing and the Met beckoned, and last week before a packed house Soprano Farrell, 40, made her Met debut in an English version of Christoph Willibald von Gluck's Alcestis. Soprano Farrell proved clearly that she belonged on the Met stage, but alas, there were also hints that her debut may have come a little too late...
STORE-CHAIN PURCHASE made by Maxwell H. Gluck, former U.S. Ambassador to Ceylon, boosts to 247 the number of women's-wear stores he controls. For $2,500,000 he bought control of Grayson-Robinson Stores, adding its 107 women's-wear and four camera stores, with $64 million sales, to his string of 140 Darling Stores, with an estimated $30 million sales...
...great lieder singer, a standout oratorio performer (Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, Handel's Messiah), and a star of such operas as La Gioconda and Medea. The singer: Eileen Farrell. probably the finest dramatic soprano in the U.S., who will make her Met debut next season in Gluck's Alceste...
...singer-back in the days when she was getting vocal encouragement from her parents, who once toured the nation as "The Singing O'Farrells." In the '40s she used to sing the blues occasionally on radio shows, and at her Community Concert recitals she would precede a Gluck aria with Lover and Spring Is Here...
Surovy steered Rise into Carmen, her most famous Met role, and over her objections that she wanted to sing Bach and Gluck, he also got her to sing Carmen Jones, Showboat and other light fare. Result : while her operatic career has declined (she is now 47, he is 50), Stevens is still in demand for concert and TV performances. Surovy handles all the "commercial work" for his wife with such success that "if we ever got divorced, I think she'd still retain me as her personal manager." ¶Enrique Magrina, 38, was a law student at the University...