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...certainly Princess Bopha Devi, 25, eldest daughter of Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, looks as serene and elegant as the white frangipani blossoms that she usually scatters through her hair. Now she was wearing the 6th century headdress, valued at $200,000, that marks her position as prima ballerina in Cambodia's Royal Ballet. It is a 2,000-year-old tradition that the leading dancer be the daughter of the king-and though Sihanouk has renounced his royal title, Princess Devi is prima in the hypnotic dances, which, she says, are "witnesses to the past grandeur, glory...
...Time, last week; place, Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center. Bev erly has at last found her destiny. At 39, she is the New York City Opera's prima donna and clearly ranks as one of the two or three finest coloraturas in the world. At the New York Phil harmonic Promenade Concert, she sings a selection of Viennese arias and songs by Kalman, Korngold, Mozart and Richard Strauss, displaying a faultless voice that sweeps with elaborate embellishments to feathery, accurate high notes. The audience goes wild and demands an encore. From Santiago, Buenos Aires, Vienna and London come frantic...
Composers are as jealous as prima donnas, says American Symphonist Benjamin Lees, 44. "You can have lots of them for friends as long as your music isn't being performed more than theirs." So popular is his music these days at concerts of the Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit symphonies and a host of lesser orchestras, that Lees runs the risk of never again getting a friend ly greeting from any of his colleagues...
...into Winthrop House, and into the History Department. He was easily one of Harvard's two or three most popular lecturers, and undergraduate and graduate students flocked to him for individual supervision. His warmth and understanding brought him many demands as a Master and administrator. In no way a prima donna, Professor Owen did not refuse burdensome tasks that required sound judgment and sensitivity...
...Making the most of her big, warm voice, mature musicianship and canny flair for stagecraft, she was discovered all over again in the character roles of the mezzo repertory. Today, at 45, she has arrived at the point where she can not only steal the show from high-flying prima donnas but also carry an entire production herself. In recent seasons she has frequently done both, demonstrating the versatility as well as the power of her portrayals by encompassing the quirky pathos of the aged countess in Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades, the bawdy wit of Mistress Quickly...