Word: ljuba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...music to a fierce, steady glow. Highpoints: George Shirley's rocketlike traversal of Fuor del mar-a crippling catalogue of coloratura devices -and Elettra's two arias sung by Pauline Tinsley, a British dramatic soprano whose voice has an electric radiance that recalls Ina Souez and Ljuba Welitsch at their best...
...would never draw in Las Vegas, but for the Met it seemed about right. Indeed, so much was just right with the performance that Nilsson's Salome will go down as the finest the Met has heard since Ljuba Welitsch sang the part 15 years ago. At the end, the first-night audience gave Nilsson a half-hour standing ovation. "It was," said Nilsson, "the biggest ovation I have ever heard." After 30 minutes of curtain calls, who even remembered those seven veils...
...Wieland Wagner's West Berlin production last December, in which religiosity was emphasized. But connoisseurs of the basic Salome, who do not bother themselves with such matters, were content to say that Rudolfova was the sexiest Salome since Margaret Tynes -or maybe even that red-haired genius, Ljuba Welitch...
...last week, in self-deprecation, spoke the sexiest Salome since red-haired Ljuba Welitch. The occasion was a new production of the Strauss opera at Spoleto, Italy, the musical festival that draws some 120,-ooo tourists each summer. Singing the role of "that girl"-described in Oscar Wilde's play as having "veins filled with fire"-was a fine new Negro soprano: Virginia-born Margaret Tynes...