Word: marias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toughest operas in all bel canto, Vincenzo Bellini's I Puritani. When she was done, Bellini was on his knees, the capacity audience at the New York State Theater on its feet for a long ovation. In post-World War II productions of Puritani, only Maria Callas has achieved anything to equal Sills' limpid coloration, melting lyricism and blissfully giddy personification of a heroine whose luxury it is to have both a mad scene and a happy ending...
...production puts Sills back into English history, where in recent years she has triumphed in the Donizetti trilogy devoted to three queens-Elizabeth I (Roberto Devereux), Maria Stuarda and Anna Bolena. I Puritani was the last opera Bellini wrote before he died in 1835 at age 33. Its graceful and ornate vocal writing actually suits Sills' light voice better than Donizetti's heavyweight scores. This is music to float jewels on. Sills' succession of bravura displays in the mad scene ("Qui la voce sua soave ") is like a string of emeralds, each deeper and more lustrous...
...that Diva Maria Callas, 50, was to appear at her first New York recital in nine years, the phone rang at Impresario Sol Hurok's hotel. There was, said the operator, a lady friend of 20 years' standing who wished to speak to him. "That's not nearly long enough," said Hurok, refusing to take the call. He got the message anyway. Callas was canceling because of a sore throat. The 2,800 fans, some of whom had paid as much as $100 a ticket, were disappointed, even tearful, but not altogether surprised. Maria had done...
During the past calendar year a record 81,807 letters to TIME crossed the desk of Letters Chief Maria Luisa Cisneros. Letters about Nation stories led the lists, as always, and our Watergate stories attracted the most attention. A January 1973 profile of a little-known former CIA agent named E. Howard Hunt attracted a trickle of mail from seven readers. In subsequent months G. Gordon Liddy, L. Patrick Gray, John Dean and James McCord would all appear on TIME covers, and the response to Watergate would grow to a flood of 23,000 letters. Wrote one critic...
...meeting, Maria Gonzales '75, South House CHUL representative, will ask that last month's motion be repealed...