Word: marias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week at the New York City Opera, Sills' somebody else was Mary Queen of Scots in Donizetti's Maria Stuarda-and everybody got the message. In a career distinguished by a quest for new music and new roles, Maria is one of her best finds yet. Sills shows a thoroughgoing grasp of both the personal inner core and the queenly outer charisma of her character. Emotionally it is as if Sills were living in 16th century Tudor England. Indeed, that may well be the case these days. She is in the midst of performing a trilogy...
Musically, Maria Stuarda is, alas, a considerable bore-much less inspired, say, than the same composer's Lucia di Lammermoor or Don Pasquale. The only reason to pluck it from obscurity now is to afford a singing actress like Sills the dual opportunity to make life look difficult and bel canto fioritura easy. That Sills can accomplish better than anyone in opera today...
Among the best-known candidates will be Film Actor Gian Maria Volonte, star of Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, and Concetto Lo Bello. Italy's most famous soccer referee. For militant leftists, there is Anarchist Pietro Valpreda, 39, a professional dancer by trade, who is charged with having killed 16 people and wounded 90 by planting a bomb two years ago in Milan's Agricultural Bank. Militant rightists can turn to Pino Rauti, 46, a neo-Fascist newsman who is accused of exploding 24 bombs at various places in 1969, including eight aboard trains on the Milan...
...University of California in San Diego, where the Burbidges have taught for the past decade, Mrs. Burbidge tries to give all the time and counsel she can to women students. "In view of their situation," she says, "they need every encouragement." Together with the late Nobel laureate in physics Maria Goeppert Mayer-who died last month-she has also been pressuring the university to hire more women. A few months ago, she unexpectedly rejected the distinguished Annie J. Cannon Prize, given by the American Astronomical Society for notable work by women in astronomy. "Because of the small number of women...
...been changed to the study of "invisible women" whose achievements have been largely forgotten: Dorothea Dix, whose exposes revolutionized conditions in mental institutions a century ago; Sojourner Truth, a former slave and influential abolitionist who was received by Abraham Lincoln and later appointed "counselor to the freed people"; Maria Mitchell, who discovered a new comet in 1847; Belva Lockwood, activist lawyer and candidate for President on an equal-rights platform in 1884. In analyzing the bias that has ignored such figures, the women's studies courses frequently focus on economic exploitation and other forms of oppression. At Buffalo...