Word: norden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...received a simple, stark, and thoroughly convincing presentation from the Met for three years now. Regine Crespin's age has taken the lusciousness out of her voice, but her insight and style are perfect for the role of the Old Prioress. Maria Ewing in the lead and Betsy Norden as Sister Constance both shine with youth and youthful voices. The Met in Boston reports that Carmelites isn't selling well, so it's probably your best chance to get decent seats at this late hour.Above left, Otto Schenk's naturalistic staging of the Pilgrim's Chorus from...
They stole drawings, for example, of the Americans' highly successful Norden bombsight-but were unable to manufacture and install it. Hitler decided to in vade Russia with no real knowledge of the Soviet economy or military machine (the Germans were unaware of the existence of the T-34, the war's best tank, and never quite believed that D-day would occur at Normandy). Lack of undercover information did not matter greatly when the German armies were advancing through Europe. But after 1944 it was literally a matter of life and death, because intelligence is essentially a defensive...
...Christina A. Norden...
...protagonists play out the drama of saintly endeavor and human fear like dancers in a dream of both life and death. Stage Director Dexter can take credit for that too, although he has been given some splendid singing actresses to work with - Régine Crespin, Shirley Verrett, Betsy Norden, Maria Ewing. As Blanche, the rich-voiced Ewing emerges as a genuine comer in her blend of inner anguish and, at the end, heroic resolve. In the pit, French Conductor Michel Plasson shapes the music with enough loving deftness to underscore the fact that Dialogues...
CHRISTINA A. NORDEN Woodbury...