Word: joyousness
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Fausto Cleva, not the Met's liveliest conductor, this time set his singers a brisk pace, never permitted any sagging in the supple vocal line that Verdi skillfully stitched through Arrigo Boito's libretto. As Othello, Tenor Mario del Monaco sailed onstage in full joyous shout in his "Esultate," and from there on through his Act III explosion of jealous rage, never pausing to be subtle, kept the house ringing and the stage dark with passion. Baritone Leonard Warren as lago proved again his ability to soar dramatically or modulate to a mahogany pianissimo, invested his role with...
...Gianandrea Gavazzeni; London, 3 LPs). A first-rate cast gives a racy reading to Amilcare Ponchielli's old campaigner from Venice, proves that there is a lot more to it than its pop-concert Dance of the Hours. Mellow-voiced Soprano Cerquetti gives a superb performance as "the joyous female" of the title role who loses her blind mother and her lover before she plunges a dagger in her heart. Tenor del Monaco sings so gustily that he conceals the fact his Grimaldo is the most hagridden hero in opera...
...Gogh's White Roses (opposite). Along with its companion piece on the same subject, owned by New York's Governor Averell Harriman, it is one of the most serene, glowing and untroubled canvases Van Gogh ever painted. It carries with it Van Gogh's sense of joyous (though temporary) release from an attack of madness that the painter described when he wrote to his brother from Saint-Rémy two months before his suicide: "That horrible attack has disappeared like a storm, and I work with calm and steady ardor to do a few last things...
...Austria the Hungarian government had removed the barbed wire, the mines, and the dogs from the border--it had been impossible to get through before. The border zig-zags, and we got into Austria and back into Hungary several times, but finally we crossed it. It wasn't a joyous thing at all; just crossing that no-man's-land. It was rather sad-leaving behind everything...
...policy that all the news is fit to print-even when it means running a story from one column to the preceding one. The paper may well be the only one in the world with three separate editorial pages, each allowed to pursue its own vendettas and crusades with joyous disregard for overall policy. Thus, in one issue, in addition to Cabot's own editorial-page salute to the paper's founder, his colleague J. B. Martinez wrote an editorial in the paper's two-page Spanish section, bewailing the defeat of the federal school-aid bill...