Word: joan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wellesley girls never quit. Joan Arneson stroked to a first in the 80-yard individual medley, and Kathy Williams ade a win in the 100-free to bring her team within 13 points of Racliffe...
Last week New York's Metropolitan Opera offered a new Norma production with Joan Sutherland in the title role. Hardly had she finished her first duet with Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Horne (as Adalgisa) than the audience began to cheer and occasionally stamp and yell. The enthusiasm was fully justified. Sutherland's voice warmed toward a soaring, languorous tenderness. Horne, making one of the greatest Met debuts, showed a vocal reach and richness that exceeded nearly anybody's gasp. In Mira, O Norma, closing Act III, the two together floated along like two strings of a violin being...
...been singing with Joan Sutherland since 1961. "It's like a fairy tale," Marilyn explains their collaboration. "We never have to work to sing together. We just learn our parts and come together, and it's been there all along." Her next new role will be as Fidès in Meyerbeer's Le Prophète, which she will sing this summer both in Turin and London. "Fidès is Norma for contraltos," she explains. "I'm looking forward to it." Meanwhile Rudolf Bing, the Met and its followers can look forward...
...road is fun," she says, although "it's kind of a crappy thing for a girl to do-sing in a bar." There is one thing she'd like to try. "Now this sounds really stupid, but I'd like to do a modern version of Joan of Arc. Play her in love, you know? There she is, forging on through life groping for something-and it's God! She falls in love and feels like she's flyin' high and she can conquer the world and she's the best-lookin...
What else is there to say? The east sings nicely, but we have been such performers as Robert Weede, Joan Diener, and Helen Gallagher (How I love her) in much happier circumstances. This time around, the director has given them so many May time poses to affect that acting is out of the question...