Word: infanta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many thanks for the mention of my opera, The Birthday of the Infanta, in your issue of May 28. The "happy returns" are already coming in with eleven performances in the offing, publication and recording. A small correction, though...
...Birthday of the Infanta, by Ron Nelson, 29, graduate student at Rochester's Eastman School of Music, and composer of promotional-film sound tracks. Following Oscar Wilde's story, a dwarf falls in love with a Spanish princess and persuades her to set up her throne in the forest. The scheme is frustrated by the captain of the guard, and tragedy closes in. The music reminded listeners of both Puccini and Menotti, and suggested that Birthday will have many happy returns...
...Infanta Maria Christina of Spain, daughter of the late King Alfonso and wife of Count Enrico Marone-Cinzano of the vermouth family, arrived from Italy for her first visit to Manhattan. Her reaction: "What you in New York pay a cook, Rome pays an ambassador...
Adenauer's choice for ambassador was Prince Adalbert Alfons Maria Ascension Antonius Hubertus Joseph. A scholarly, 66-year-old German Catholic whose mother was the Spanish Infanta. Maria de la Paz, and whose grandmother was Queen Isabella II of Spain, Prince Adalbert is a little too intimately connected with royalist circles for Franco's taste. The German colony (particularly the ex-Nazis) was not overjoyed either. The Spanish Foreign Office wanted Franz von Papen-but a hint to this effect got nowhere. Along with his credentials, the Prince was comniissioned to present Franco with a couple of long...
...Infanta Margarita, the San Diego Fine Arts Gallery favorite, is one of many paintings that Diego Velasquez, the master realist, made of the prim and lonely-looking 17th century Spanish Princess...