Word: lunt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only four days before curtain time, but the Metropolitan Opera's brave new production of Mozart's Così Fan Tutte was trembling and acold. At rehearsal, the singers were tired and downcast. Stage Director Alfred Lunt was slumped in a front-row seat, clasping his head. From the pit came the low, gruff voice of Veteran Conductor Fritz Stiedry: "Alfred! Be very angry. Make a big scene...
...Lunt began working himself into a scene. He uncoiled from his seat, strode onstage and eyed the silent singers. "You've forgotten everything I've told you," he said, with cold distinctness. "Even being opera singers is no excuse for your acting . . . You look like bowls of cold, rancid oatmeal...
...Easy Lessons. When General Manager Rudolf Bing first asked Actor Lunt to direct Così, he told him that all he had to do was to make it "light, gay and elegant." Protested Lunt: "You cannot get those opera singers up on their points with six lessons from Madame LaZonga."* But once he had listened to Mozart's elegantly subtle score (unheard at the Met since 1928), Lunt accepted the challenge...
Busy as ever shaking up the old Met, Rudolf Bing announced last week that he will have 16 new singers this season, and two one-shot directors from Broadway: Alfred Lunt (Cosi Fan Tutti) and the Old Vic's Tyrone Guthrie (Carmen). Bing's new roster ended with dancers, and the name of a new premiere danseuse, New Orleans-born Janet Collins, of last season's Broadway show, Out of This World. That was where the reporters found their headlines. In the 68-year history of the Met, Premiere Danseuse Collins is the first Negro to become...
Crimson defensemen and goalie Larry Ratner, new to the game, may have trouble stopping Deerfield's rough and hard-shooting attackmen Dexter Lewis and Paul Timer. Midfielder George Lunt, starting his fourth year on the Green and White's varsity is another scoring threat...