Word: monserrat
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...Brünnhilde in Götterdämmerung. But she is ideally suited to bel canto, and to the French lyric romanticism of Gounod and Massenet. In these areas she is unbeatable, and even among the diverse other sopranos in this age of great sopranos?Birgit Nilsson, Sutherland, Price, Marilyn Horne, Monserrat Caballé?she more than holds...
Record companies are understandably annoyed. This spring, for example, after Spanish Soprano Monserrat Caballe made her widely acclaimed U.S. debut in Lucrezia Borgia, RCA Victor quickly signed her to make a recording of the opera. But not quickly enough. A black-market version of her debut was already selling briskly for $25. Artists, who naturally get no royalties from the piratings, are equally irritated. Mezzo-Soprano Regina Resnik, rummaging through a record bin a few years ago, was startled to hear a recording of Wagner's Ring cycle, whose label listed a cast of singers and an opera company...
...libraries were offended by its festering descriptions and raw, one-syllable dialogue; but in the general acclaim their voices were drowned out. At 25. Mailer had written the great novel of World War II. It had come closer to the heart and horror of war than the seascapes of Monserrat and Wouk, or the peripheries of Michener and John Home Burns. Even Mailer's disgruntled contemporaries admitted it. "At the time," says Gore Vidal, "I remember thinking meanly: so somebody...
Traditionally, the Holy Thursday procession of Buenos Aires' Roman Catholics marches 13 blocks, from Congress Square to the spacious Plaza de Mayo, but this year the police gave grudging permission to proceed only as far as the Church of Our Lady of Monserrat, five blocks from the Plaza. Abreast of the church, the marchers shuffled to a halt. But some of the younger men, alert as scouts advancing into enemy territory, pushed on to see what the cops would do. They did nothing...
...march beyond the Church of Monserrat was a crossing of the Rubicon in the struggle between the uneasy strongman and the church. As recently as a few weeks ago, a closed-door meeting between Perón and the Archbishop of Buenos Aires could touch off widespread rumors of a truce. Last week any lingering wisps of hope for a peace evaporated. Perón called his envoy to the Vatican home for "consultations," and the Vatican reciprocated by summoning its apostolic nuncio to Rome for "consultations." The official Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano, labeled Perón's government...
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