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...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...
...Ljuba. Rumania's new secret power, says Dr. Cohen, is another woman: Ljuba, brunette Bessarabian wife of Vice Premier Iosif Chisinevschi. No prude where Soviet officers were concerned, Ljuba got her husband the fat job of food-procurement officer for the Soviet army of occupation in 1946. Chisinevschi quickly moved up the power line and today, by virtue of his wife's cozy relations with the Soviet embassy, bosses the government. In a beautiful pavilion near Bucharest, in the formal royal park where King Carol's Magda Lupescu once frolicked, attractive, dark-eyed Ljuba holds brilliant Thursday...
...Married. Ljuba ("I am a ripe wooman") Welitch, 42, redhaired, dumpling-shaped Bulgarian soprano whose sensual Salome at the Metropolitan Opera (1949) had audiences hanging on till the seventh veil; and handsome Vienna Traffic Cop Karl Schmalvogl, 29; both for the second time; in Vienna...