Word: lammermoors
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...bearers, then go on to a semester or two in Europe. For publishable articles they get $15 to $25. In order to thin the ranks of contributors. Editor Peltz subjects them to quick research jobs on what she anachronistically calls "$64 questions." Samples: ¶ Was Gaetano Donizetti (Lucia di Lammermoor) a Scotsman? For years nobody could give an answer, but one girl eventually uncovered some evidence that the composer's great-grandfather was a Scot named Izett-a handy connection, as Lucia is laid in Scotland. ¶ Why did Puccini change the church in Tosca? In the original play...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Lucia di Lammermoor, with Pons, Valentino, Peerce...
...25th anniversary of the Metropolitan Opera debut of durable Soprano Lily Pens, 51, the Met staged a special gala to hail her, programmed a hit parade of Ponsongs from such favorite operas of Lily's as Rigoletto and Lucia di Lammermoor. From high-domed Rudolph Bing, the Met's general manager, Lily got congratulations and a passel of sterling silver mementos. Almost as trim as she was when she first defied the stereotyped bovine heft of oldtime grand divas, tiny (5 ft. ½ in., 109 Ibs.) French-born Singer Pons graciously took her curtain calls, then used...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Lucia di Lammermoor, with Pons, Peerce. Valentino...
...Gilda in Rigoletto; Olympia in Tales of Hoffmann) call for light-skinned singers, but she has no objection to wearing light makeup. "If white singers make up to play Aida or Otello," she says, "why shouldn't Negroes be able to make up for roles like Lucia di Lammermoor...