Word: prima
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite its failings. Noah made a moving TV debut. It added up to one more success for the team that created such ballets as Petrouchka, Firebird, Orpheus and Agon. Says Prima Ballerina Melissa Hayden, who watched with admiration: "I do not know what Balanchine and Stravinsky will do next, what new medium they will conquer, and what new experiences they will give; I am only sure that when they do. I want to be there and be a part...
There is still a lot of loyalty in a lot of people." "I Know Where to Go." Buckley lives by loyalty. He distrusts anyone who thinks politics has anything to do with ideals or abstractions. He dismisses fellow Democrats Adlai Stevenson ("a prima donna"), Estes Kefauver ("a lulu"), and such reformers as Eleanor Roosevelt and Herbert Lehman ("Give them an inch and they'll take a mile...
...Bing (who left Glyndebourne in 1949 to go to the Met). In its search for "perfect opera." Glyndebourne now allows an unprecedented six weeks of rehearsal for each production, insists that with rare exceptions singers remain in residence at least four weeks-a provision that drives away heavily scheduled prima donnas...
Sweeping around West Germany on a four-city concert tour. Soprano Maria Callas, 38, was guilty of not one prima donnybrook, seemed to be newly tranquilized. Though an eye inflammation bedded her down for a day in a Bonn hospital, she gamely went on with the show the next evening, restrained her storied temper even when flashbulbs popped during performances. Cooed her concert agent: "Maria has changed completely. She is a charming, amiable, friendly woman...
Title role of Persephone was danced by Lithuanian Ballerina Svetlana Beriosova. heiress apparent to Margot Fonteyn as the company's prima ballerina. Actually. Persephone's "dancing" proved to be little more than occasional rhythmic movements, far less important than the recitation of Gide's text, which Beriosova accomplished in a mellifluous voice with the aid of a microphone concealed in the neckline of her dress. The ballet's best dancing parts were reserved for Pluto (Keith Rosson) and Mercury (Alexander Grant). Dancer Grant appeared nearly naked wearing white briefs and a rigid, long-bobbed gold...