Word: opera
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...messy divorce, scored a demi-triumph as a lobbyist for low-income housing before the same Senate subcommittee on which he once sat. Now Brooke is taking a second wife: Anne Fleming, 30, of Saint Martin in the West Indies. Fleming speaks four languages, is a gourmet cook and opera buff. But her husband is obviously as impressed by her political credentials: her great-grandfather, grandfather, father and uncle have all been mayors of French Saint Martin...
...precious young independent director, and Maria (Monica Vitti), a married, middle-aged movie star. When this odd couple first start fooling around there are some amusing cross-cultural jokes, as well as touching erotic interludes in dreamy Riviera locales. But the affair quickly becomes a high-toned soap opera that devours the movie. By the end, the hero and heroine are adrift at sea in a stalled motorboat, screaming platitudes at each other. The scene looks like a parody of Lina Wertmuller, but not, alas, an intentional...
Like Python, Beyond the Fringe specializes in heavily satiric parodies of the moronic aspects of "the hurly-burly of modern existence," as exemplified by the morons themselves--the twit who shows up at an opera he does not like 497 times in the hope of catching a glimpse of the royal family, the Scotland Yard detective with all the intellect (if not looks) of an iguana in heat, the one-footed man ("unidexter" is the term used) who wants to try out for the role of Tarzan...
DIED. Leopold Ludwig, 71, celebrated Generalmusikdirektor of the Hamburg Opera (1951-70), popular guest conductor of the Metropolitan and San Francisco operas, and versatile interpreter of contemporary opera as well as of Wagner, Strauss and Mahler; of a heart attack; in Luneburg, West Germany...
...cultural chauvinism, Davies, 35, has won his major recognition in Europe. He has been a guest conductor with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Bayreuth Festival, and in the fall of 1980 he will leave St. Paul to take up an appointment as music director of the Stuttgart Opera...