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...critical columns. It was easy to see why. Her breezy, bohemian style of life made good copy, especially with photos of her in miniskirt or sleek red Jaguar. Lately, Anja Silja has been making musical headlines as well, and is now hailed as Europe's fastest-rising prima donna...
LEONTYNE PRICE: PRIMA DONNA, VOL. 2 (RCA Victor). Scores of recital albums are released each year, one after the other, boasting unknown, known and overly known singers rendering familiar collections of pop arias. Such banality is quite beneath Leontyne Price. She adorns the measliest note with proud individuality, and in this recording caresses and enriches works ranging from Handel's Care selve through Weber's Leise, leise to Puccini's Senza mamma...
...Harkness troupe is fully up to such dramatic demands. Some of its brightest stars are Americans-Lawrence Rhodes of Detroit, who brings to Dead Boy and Time Out of Mind an overwhelming sense of racking passion under superb muscular control, and New Yorker Brunilda Ruiz, an agile, high-leaping prima ballerina. The company's foreign-born dancers, ranging in origin from Iceland to Japan, have been carefully selected for their adaptability to an "American" style. That style, explains Macdonald, is the best in the world for new ballet. "Americans are relatively weak in classical training," he says, "but they...
...have come to grief on its melodic precipices because they lacked the bel canto technique, emotional projection, and soaringly powerful voice that the title role requires. The 19th century Soprano Lilli Lehmann said it was easier to sing three Brünnhildes than one Norma, and the great French Prima Donna Pauline Viardot was so obsessed with the difficulties of the part that the last word she spoke on her deathbed was "Norma." Maria Callas has scaled the role, though rarely without lapses along the way, and often with a sense of straining bravely beyond her vocal limits...
...goes on to say, "If it is required that registers be kept,... evidence that the person in actual charge has knowingly permitted the occupation of a private room...by the same man or different occasions within a period of thirty days with different women, shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of this section...