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...Fair Lady workshop singers (some have joined from other musical casts) have had no operatic training, but some hope for careers in opera. The Musetta in last week's Bohème rehearsal, Lola Fisher, was Julie Andrews' able understudy as Eliza Doolittle, and Mimi was Evelyn Aring, who sings on the Firestone Hour...
...Born. To Mimi Benzell, 33, bubbling former Metropolitan Opera soprano turned supper club and TV singer, and Concert Manager Walter A. Gould: their second child, first daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Jennifer Alicia. Weight...
Callas had come and gone, leaving the field to her great rival, Renata Tebaldi. As Mimi in Boheme, Tebaldi had already caused an emotional demonstration by partisans who tied up Manhattan traffic around the Met long after midnight. Last week in a brand-new production of Verdi's La Traviata, the Met's first in 21 years, Tebaldi's performance was memorable...
...turn-of-the-century Paris that had never heard of existentialism. The work is not only good opera but good soap opera, telling the torturous romance of a working girl and her artist lover. The scene is the same turbulent Paris where Bohème's Rodolfo and Mimi loved, but while Puccini's Bohemians are really passionate Italians, Charpentier's characters are really Parisians-frothy, but a little stylized for all the sugar-sweet music. Made famous overnight by Louise in 1900, Composer Charpentier spent the rest of his life vainly trying to imitate himself, died...
...social circuit, Mac-Arthur and his witty wife, Laura, daughter of the late Alben Barkley, are much in demand. Laura MacArthur leans naturally toward the Democratic Party; her husband diplomatically describes himself as an independent. MacArthur keeps a motorboat on the Potomac, hopes that when he, Laura, and daughter, Mimi, 19, are settled in Tokyo he will be able to follow a favorite pastime: skindiving...