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Pouring huge cups of tea with honey at his villa on the Côte d'Azur, the 30-year-old painter, sculptor and ceramicist-who was born in 1881-winked at his guest of honor, Italian Movie Actress Lucia Bose. Her child, Paola, whose father is Spain's retired superstar of the corrida, Luis Miguel Dominguín, is Picasso's goddaughter, and Lucia's presence, quite obviously, put him in an expansive mood. Why, someone asked, do the peaceful doves for which he is so famous never have any feet? Because, said Picasso...
...years later he made his operatic debut in Traviata with Mexico's National Opera. That same year he sang opposite Joan Sutherland in Lucia di Lammermoor with the Dallas Civic Opera. Then came an offer from the Israel National Opera in Tel Aviv. Nearly 300 performances later, Rudel signed Domingo and gave him the title role in Ginastera's Don Rodrigo at the February 1966 opening of the company's new home in Lincoln Center. Domingo...
...Guadalajara, Mexico, two dancers from Moiseyev's Russian Classical Ballet also defected, they too for love. Giennadi Simonovich Vos-trikov took his Mexican girl friend Christina with him when he went to apply for asylum, while Aleksander Silippov left no doubt that his fascination with Brazilian Dancer Lucia Tristao was the main reason for his staying. For Lucia he has given up his wife, mother and the homeland to which he still professes loyalty...
...initial promise. Organized in 1940 as Ballet Theatre ("American" was added in 1956), the company prospered from the start; one reason was that with Europe at war, New York had become the refuge of a staggering array of imported talent. Backed by the millions of Philanthropist and sometime Dancer Lucia Chase, Founding Director Richard Pleasant was able to put together an opening season with a roster that read like a Who's Who of the dance world. Michel Fokine, Anton Dolin and Antony Tudor were among the choreographers; Dolin, Dimitri Romanoff, Adolph Bolm and Nina Stroganova were among...
Donizetti: Roberto Devereux (Westminster). Just as memorably melodic as Lucia but far more powerful. Beverly Sills' Queen Elizabeth has all the expected coloratura dazzle but with chest tones and a dramatic style that should raise her already formidable reputation several notches higher...