Word: mias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...singers sang two arias at the Met last week and suddenly made clear that, vocally, opera is in the midst of a new golden age. Soprano Leontyne Price, in Aïda, sang the famous O patria mia with such velvety beauty, such abundance of power, that she overshadowed most other recent Aïdas. Later in the same week, Birgit Nilsson sang Turandot's climactic scene in a way that will be remembered for years as the fulfillment of the opera's own description of its heroine: "Fire and ice." If two such performances can happen within...
Stealthily, and above all "scientifically," the gang prepares to take its objective, a neighborhood jewelry store. The plan involves a vacant apartment through which the store can be entered. Mamma mia! A few days before the robbery the gang discovers that the apartment is not vacant at all. Two nice old ladies live there-they just never open the shutters. Fortunately, the old ladies have a pretty young housemaid. The boxer makes a date with her. She falls madly in love-and impulsively announces that she has quit...
...FATIMA MIA...
...bases loaded. While the performer stood transfixed, boos, catcalls and whistles filled the warm night air. Occasion: an open-air performance of Aïda at Verona, during which Soprano Antonietta Stella committed the unpardonable sin of muffing a high C in the difficult third-act aria O patria mia...
Born. To Steven Clark Rockefeller, 24, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller's second son and Union Theological Seminary graduate student; and Anne-Marie ("Mia") Rasmussen Rockefeller, 22, Norwegian grocer's daughter and onetime Rockefeller family maid: their first child (Nelson's sixth grandchild), a son; in Manhattan. Name: Steven Clark...