Word: opera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marriage Revealed. Risë (rhymes with Mona Lisa) Stevens, 25, pretty new Metropolitan Opera contralto; and Walter Szurowy, 28, Hungarian stage & screen actor; three months ago; in Manhattan...
...early to rise" makes a girl healthy, happy, and safe, is true. Nine times out of ten that is the case. Of course there is always the tenth girl who just happened to meet the right fellow, and now has three maids and even takes in the opera! This case is rare, however, and the townie usually goes back to the local boy who really made good...
Greatest impersonation of the late Basso Feodor Chaliapin was the fear-racked 17th-Century Tsar in Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov. In 1908, Chaliapin was the first man to sing Boris outside of Russia, in 1929 the last to sing it at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Other bassos -notably the Metropolitan's Adamo Didur, the Chicago Opera's Vanni Marcoux-donned the wig and beard of Boris, but they were haunted by the Chaliapin performance, just as in the opera the Tsar is haunted in his biggest scenes by the wraith of the young heir...
...action. If Pinza failed to dominate, it was partly because the whole production was one of the finest the Metropolitan has mounted in years. Aside from the fact that it was sung in Italian, it would doubtless have pleased hard-drinking neurotic Modeste Moussorgsky, who, when he wrote the opera in 1873, attempted to make the People the protagonist, gave the chorus a great "Revolutionary Scene," in which he planted ideas which did not come to fruit in Russia until 1917. This scene, which ends with a song sung by an idiot (signifying plenty), underscores its point, as the curtain...
Sure, vacation is near, but not yet excitingly near. Welles has gone; Hepburn has come; the opera sells itself out. The first paragraph of a news story reads: "Czechoslovakia was." Just Czechoslovakia was, period. A character in Shaw's "Pygmalion" snaps: "Yes, I said 'God' and I meant every word of it!" Daylight lengthens, but supper is still its deadline. Students eat goldfish, and dog food, and the ice cream record falls...