Word: impresario
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Word of a sensational new Spanish singer first began to drift across the Atlantic early last year; a 25-year-old raven-haired, camelia-skinned lyric soprano named Victoria de los Angeles, singing in opera and recital, had taken London and Paris by storm. Sharp-eared U.S. Impresario Sol Hurok investigated and joined the cheering section. Metropolitan Opera General Manager Rudolf Bing, who sailed for Europe last spring rather certain that his roster of leading sopranos was complete, changed his mind when he heard her. By last week, Soprano de los Angeles' first U.S. concert performance was just about...
...Tristan, with Kirsten Flagstad as Isolde. San Franciscans (and Metropolitan Opera General Manager Rudolf Bing, who sorely needs a successor to Lauritz Melchior) were all set to hear him. But a fortnight ago, with debut day almost at hand, Tenor Vinay was bogged down in Chile. A stubborn Santiago impresario refused to let him leave the country until he fulfilled a delayed engagement. Last week, finally freed by persuasion and compromise, Vinay flew to San Francisco, took his big step, was cheered by audience and critics...
...company was still in doubt about its second U.S. reception, there were other, more substantial assurances. Impresario Sol Hurok's office predicted a steady sellout through the company's three-week stay at the Met. After Manhattan, Sadler's Wells will set out on a four-month, 31-stop continental tour which has already piled up the biggest advance sale (more than $1,000,000) in American dance history...
...exhibition, which was already turning out to be the most popular in Gump's 91-year history. The first pictures to go were an 18th Century engraving of two cupids making a prim stab at golf, and four Victorian prints celebrating croquet, bathing, archery and rowing. Beamed Impresario Gump: "We've taken sporting art out of the box seats and moved it into the bleachers...
...done pretty well before that. He is a greying, boyish man who worked his way from bus boy to crap dealer to the ownership of a string of San Diego cocktail bars, moved to Las Vegas (in 1941) and blossomed into a full-fledged Nevada gambling impresario. But his Desert Inn sounded just too rich...