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...Captain Billy Buck Candler (Tune), an ace flyer who plans to become the first man to fly across the Atlantic to Paris, but whose passion for Edythe Herbert (Twiggy), an aquatic star, overwhelms his passion for the air. Edythe, however, is under the watchful and lustful eye of Prince Nicolai (Bruce McGill), the "Aquacade's" manager, who threatens to show Billy embarrassing photographs of Edythe and prevent their union. This "conflict" functions merely as a device to leave Billy and Edythe separated, but still in love, at the end of the first act. (Sometime during Act II, the Prince finally...
...years ago, Bill Nicolai, 36, an avid backpacker, relied on food stamps to eat. After his tent was destroyed in a snowstorm in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest, he designed a tougher tent to replace it and began offering it through the mail. Last year Early Winters, the hiking-equipment catalogue business Nicolai founded, had sales of $7.2 million, and he expects them to reach $10 million this year...
Freni retains a low profile in the high-strung operatic world. She and Magiera quietly separated after Micaela was married, and Freni now shares a Milan apartment with Basso Nicolai Ghiaurov. Says Freni of their relationship: "He can help me, just as I can help him. We try to appease " each other with love and humanity...
...because of a veiled timbre and somewhat muted personality. Jon Vickers, 52, can match Pavarotti's intensity and puts more serious thought behind his performing, but his is an entirely different kind of voice: rugged, heroic, best suited to dramatic works such as Otello, Les Troyens and Peter Grimes. Nicolai Gedda, an elegant, unfailingly attractive singer, is a supremely versatile stylist, at home in several languages; at 54, however, he is understandably not a powerhouse. Perhaps the challenge ultimately will come from a younger singer like Jose Carreras, 32, though to date he has shown neither the strength...
Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, Tenor Nicolai Gedda, Bass Dimiter Petkov, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich conductor, Angel; 3 LPs). Soviet critics thought they heard a masterpiece when this, Shostakovich's second opera, was premiered in 1934. Then Stalin walked out of a performance and they listened again. This time they heard "din, gnash and screech" (Pravda). The work was withdrawn, and Shostakovich pursued more orthodox ways. A sanitized version, unveiled in 1963, found its way to the West on records, but this is the first recording of the original score. Harsh, erotic...