Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operatives, will become off-campus houses for students who will eat two meals in the Quad dormitories. When the new co-operatives on the corner of Shepard and Walker Sts. open next September for 75 students, Everett and Edmands will no longer be needed in their present capacity, Joan C. King, assistant Dean of Residence and Student Affairs, explained yesterday...
...same week, Birgit Nilsson sang Turandot's climactic scene in a way that will be remembered for years as the fulfillment of the opera's own description of its heroine: "Fire and ice." If two such performances can happen within five days, in addition to Joan Sutherland's remarkable New York debut (see New & Excellent) it is plain that an exciting new generation of singers has taken hold-a generation that may reduce some of opera's grandest old names to mere echoes in the memory...
...infidelity in medieval Italy, which flopped at its Venice premiere in 1833 and had not been done in the U.S. for a century. The American Opera Society's orchestra, awkwardly led by Conductor Nicola Rescigno, sounded coarse. The supporting cast in the concert performance was uninspired. Soprano Joan Sutherland's mother - her first voice teacher -had died the day before in London. But in her New York debut, Joan Sutherland proved what past appearances (London, Venice, Dallas) had already shown: that even if one of the opera world's newest singers, she is already...
Popularity has come to her with a rush. Daughter of a Sydney tailor, Joan Sutherland took no formal voice lessons until she was 18. In 1950 she won $2,800 in an Australian singing contest, headed for Britain to study at London's Royal College of Music and landed a $28-a-week small-parts job at London's Covent Garden. She "jogged along" until 1958, when she became an overnight sensation in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor...
After last week's triumphant New York debut, Joan Sutherland concentrated on smoothing out all-but-invisible flaws in her performance. "The moment one stops finding things to criticize," she says of herself, "one might as well pack up." Soprano Sutherland has plenty of packing to do-for a tour of the U.S. and Europe that will reach a climax for U.S. operagoers next fall, when she sings Lucia...