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...toreador from the bull into the prize ring and turned the words from Spanish-flavored French into minstrel-show English. With all these modern wonders, the Metropolitan Opera dared to compete, by staging a revival of Umberto Giordano's opera of the French Revolution, Andrea Chénier, a work it has not done in 21 years...
...Groove. Giordano's 58-year-old opera, loosely based on a true episode, tells how the young Poet Chénier becomes successively enamored of the French Revolution and a French beauty, only to lose both his love and his own head to the guillotine. Also swept up in the swirling action is a servant who turns revolution ary and finds his new power as bitter as his old servitude. The Italian libretto is full of mysterious letters, whispered warnings and preposterous melodramatics. Nevertheless, the opera does convey tremendous theatrical excitement and a sharp sense of the great revolutionary...
...newscast to Italians had scarcely got under way one night when an Italian voice from Moscow butted in, so rattled the announcer that he quit, after one three-minute round. Rome then made the mistake of shifting to Venice for a performance of the opera Andrea Chénier. When the opera began, every solo became a duet, every duet a trio, until Italian radiomen finally...
...weeks ago a furor blew up over the imminent possibility of atomic power when it was learned that Physicists Alfred O. Nier of the University of Minnesota...
...recruits to the French Army: Seydon Nouron Toll, Grand Marabout Chief of Black Islam, who joined at Mamou, French Guinea, was made France's first Capitaine-Aumônier (chaplain) of its black army; Monireth Sisowath, Crown Prince of Cambodia, in the French protectorate of Indo-China, who became a private in the infantry...