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Swan Lake, The Nutcracker Suite, Scheherazade, and the Grand Pas de Deux from Don Quixote all combined to prove one thing: that the Ballet Russe no longer has the outstanding prima ballerinas which once made it the greatest company in the world. They have instead a group of young and graceful principals, many of whom are technically excellent, but none of whom have the faculty of complete abandonment which makes for inspiring classical ballet...
...serious student. She has to learn her roles letter-perfect, and for a good reason: "I'm as blind as a bat." Without her glasses, she can hardly see either the prompter or the conductor. Conductors like her because she is quick, clever and agreeable, "no prima donna in temperament...
...dare you, how dare you ... insult our leading prima donna!" sputtered one irate reader. "You Americans are obsessed with film star glamour." Flared another: "Perhaps in America they enliven Butterfly with troupes of performing dogs." From still another: "You silly little man . . . my advice to you is to take the next plane back...
...stage!" Nobody really cared that the luster was gone from her voice. "Naturally, she's not going to sing the way she did a generation back," a musician said. "Nobody expects her to. But also don't forget that she's a genuine, 24-carat prima donna of the old school...
Deep Curtsy. The 24-carat prima donna was what a Metful of admirers (including one who flew from France) paid a top to see, and just what they...