Word: nicolai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home quite late." "Ludmilla and Serge are in love and want to get married, but they must wait at least two years for an apartment. Elina has a lecherous boss. Igor hates his mother-in-law." At divorce hearings in Moscow's city court, "the next case was Nicolai Petrovitch against Valentina Petrovitch. Nicolai spoke for about ten minutes, describing Valentina as a lazy, no-good wife who neither kept house nor worked at a steady job. He said her mother interfered constantly...
...choice of this play marked an act of courage. Few people are familiar with it. Those with any knowledge of the plot have usually acquired it through one of the dozen or so operatic versions, chiefly Nicolai's Merry Wives of Windsor, Verdi's Falstaff, or Vaughan Williams' Sir John in Love. But the directors were willing to gamble (or gambol); and their slot (or slut) machine has come up with three cherries--a winning combination that ought to keep the box office coffers filled and the audience coughers silent...
There were other stars both evenings: Vladimir Levashev, who danced the role of the Evil Sorcerer with briny conviction and made his final, crippled death dance a wonderful virtuoso exercise; Nicolai Fadeyechev, who was superb as the Prince, particularly in his leaps in the Act III Black Swan variations; Georgi Soloviev as an acrobatic Jester (a happy Russian addition to the ballet). Occasionally ragged the first evening, the Bolshoi's Swan Lake was danced with fine precision at the second performance. The repetitive, copybook attitudes of the ballet corps occasionally clotted the action and wearied...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Mr. and Mrs. José Ferrer (Rosemary Clooney) and Gisele MacKenzie sing pop tunes, opera's Georgio Tozzi and Nicolai Gedda sing a duet from The Bartered Bride, Jose Iturbi plays Chopin, Liszt and Rameau on piano and harpsichord, Maria Tallchief and André Eglevsky dance a classical pas de deux. Color...
Cimarron City (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Have Sword, Will Duel presents a dazzling mixture of nationalities: a visiting Russian, Grand Duke Nicolai Alexandrovitch Danovsky, gets involved with an Irish adventurer named O'Hara, and a Latin morsel known as Conchita Lolita Sarita...