Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year ago Chicago Impresario Lawrence V. Kelly undertook the ambitious task of planting grand opera's rococo passions deep in the thorny heart of Texas. His Dallas Civic Opera Company, with Maria Meneghini Callas as its star attraction, was a rousing artistic success but a failure at the box office. Since then Impresario Kelly's operatic transplant has taken firm root in Texas soil: last week the Dallas company rounded out its second season with a chorus of critical bravos and with money pouring into the till...
...recitals but has had little operatic experience. The Dallas News's Critic John Rosenfield noted that L'ltaliana in Algeri had "ended up as a love affair between prima donna and patrons." The whole season ended up as a love affair between Texas and Dallas' own grand opera...
...topic in the opera world last week was the Callas fracas (see above), but there was other news, notably a new work by Gian Carlo Menotti and a new edition of two grand old operatic favorites...
After seven weeks of investigating charges against Twenty One, a New York County grand jury last week brought in its first indictment. Arrested on a two-count perjury charge: Producer Albert Freedman, 36, employed since 1956 by Emcee Jack Barry and Dan Enright, creators of the defunct show that once rated No. 1 in the nation, Said the indictment: Freedman "knowingly lied" when he told the grand jury that he had not fed contestants questions and answers, since "he had in fact done so." Insisted Freedman, who faces a maximum of ten years in prison and $10,000 fine...
Conquest (CBS, 5-6 p.m.). Waves, both cranial and oceanic. Half the program consists of film clips from a six-hour job of brain surgery by a team of Johns Hopkins doctors that cured a patient of grand mal epilepsy; the other half describes the toll that the pounding ocean has taken from men, ships and seacoasts...