Word: lyricism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most gifted female athlete in the history of Pennsylvania's Radnor High School was a tall (5 ft. 7½ in.) brunette with a booming tennis serve and a fine basketball hook shot. After she left Radnor, the brunette became one of the best lyric-coloratura sopranos in the world. Last week a busload of teachers journeyed to Manhattan to cheer the school's most famous alumna in a new kind of starring role. Young (24), shapely (36-24-36) Soprano Anna Moffo was making her debut at the Met in Verdi's La Traviata...
...production of Butterfly. Overnight Italy claimed her. "A voice of the sweetness and brilliance of our heavens!" wrote the Carriere della Sera critic. Voted one of Italy's ten most beautiful women, Soprano Moffo was soon singing in major European opera houses, was signed by the Chicago Lyric Opera in 1957. She had turned down two previous offers from the Met on the ground that the proposed schedule demanded too much of her time. (This season she will appear also in the Met's Faust and Marriage of Figaro...
...loses pace in its final section, as the descendants of the New Englanders and their upstart adversaries seem to forget both animosities and identities, and the author drums busily for tourism and statehood (the novel was finished before statehood came last spring). Honolulu Resident Michener strives hard for a lyric quality as the two-party system triumphs and the barons and their onetime vassals sit happily together on the same interlocking directorates. But after all the blood and gusto, such gentle music is hardly audible...
...intervals by dancing, much to its detriment. The danced portions were sung by a small chorus competently led by Emily Romney. Stephen Addiss' music contented itself for the most part with a two-part chanting of the text which was serviceable but monotonous, only occasionally relieved by moments of lyric freedom. The other two dances, "Emergence" and "Academic Allegory" were both abstruse, one serious, the other light, and set to music that was eminently unsuitable for dancing. The choreography for all these dances was static, concentrating heavily on cute but unsteady poses, arm movements, and writhing, often made to substitute...
...could appreciate it. In its only U.S. production-during the 1924-25 Metropolitan Opera season, three years before Janacek's death-Jenufa (pronounced Yen-uffa) was roundly panned. In recent years, European opera houses have been looking at Jenufa with fresh admiration, and last week Chicago's Lyric Opera followed suit, gave the work its first U.S. performance in 35 years...