Word: monserrat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
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