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...overture to Mikhail Glinka's Russlan and Ludmilla is one of the most overworked pops-concert favorites. It is also one of the best-taut, joyously melodic, brilliantly orchestrated. Thanks to the inquisitive Sarah Caldwell, we now know what follows the overture-an equally delightful opera. With Caldwell on the podium and in charge of stagecraft, the Opera Company of Boston opened its 19th season last week with the first known staging in the U.S. of this Russian classic...
Opera Company of Boston, directed by Sarah Caldwell, holds the American stage premiere of Glinka's Russian Folk opera, "Russlan and Ludmilla." Sung in English and performed by Victor Braun, Giorgio Tozzi and Jeannette Scovotti. Orpheum Theatre, Boston. For info...
...effortless that it was easy to forget she was not merely doing what comes naturally. Although her debut in senior international competition came only last year, when she leaped out of Rumanian obscurity to take the European Championship away from the Soviet Union's five-time winner, Ludmilla Turishcheva, 23, Nadia had been preparing for last week's moment of golden triumph for more than half her life...
...experts see it, the women's gymnastics competition in Montreal is a three-way toss-up-with a half-twist, double back somersault, of course. Returning to defend her championship in what has become the glamour-girl event for Olympic TV audiences is Russia's Ludmilla Turishcheva, 23, the all-round competition gold-medalist at Munich, renowned for her controlled grace and classical repertory. The cameraman's favorite will be Turishcheva's celebrated teammate, Firefly Olga Korbut, 21, who flipped, tumbled, smiled and cried both herself and her sport into the spotlight four years...
...lover, Baron Erick de Savonne, an aging but agile French tycoon. Dolores nets a $10 million marriage contract-but nothing more. On their wedding night, the Baron leaves his weeping bride alone with her 60-carat diamond ring for the bed of his true love, world-famous Ballerina Ludmilla Rosenko. Susann denies that Dolores is a roman à clef but adds: "If Jacqueline Onassis sees herself as Dolores, she will admit I made her a warm, sympathetic person...