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Biggest Moment. What critics and audiences have wanted to say of Leontyne's Met performances is that they surpassed even the expectations raised by an already glowing European reputation. For her first Met season, Leontyne Price contracted to sing five roles: Leonora in ll Trovatore, Aïda, Cio-Cio-San in Butterfly, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Liu in Turandot. Her Leonora proved to be a remarkable portrayal of a woman in whom dignity struggled with desperation and in whom grief somehow shone more movingly through a profound sense of repose. The amalgam of qualities made her fourth...
...Butterfly she unveiled last week was, in contrast to her Leonora, a creature that lived on the surface of emotion -tentative, vulnerable but never mawkish. In the last act. when Soprano Price enacted the difficult suicide with a dignity that many a famed soprano is unable to muster, Cio-Cio-San ceased to be a quaintly pathetic figure and became what she rarely isa truly tragic...
...Negro carpenter from Laurel, Miss. The tenor was the son of a naval engineer from Ancona, Italy. Together on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera last week, Leontyne Price, 30, and Franco Corelli, 36, provided the most exciting debut night of the Met season. Their joint assignment: Leonora and Manrico in Verdi's Il Trovatore...
...pearl-spattered green gown, she floated onto a moonlit stage in the second scene of Act I and filled the house with warm and lustrous sound in her beautiful aria Tacea la notte. With a fine economy of gesture and movement throughout the long evening, she acted a passionate Leonora...
...Died. Leonora Corbett, 52, British actress, a favorite of George Bernard Shaw, A. A. Milne and Noel Coward, and a frequent leading lady in their plays, who was best known in the U.S. as the ghostly first wife in Blithe Spirit in 1941, was married only once (for four years to onetime NBC Vice President John F. Royal) though her "list of fiances," she often said, "included a majority of the peers listed in Debrett's"; of a heart attack; in Vleuten, The Netherlands...