Word: rakings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last season, as the Met's English-language repertory grew, she turned comedienne, won all-out approval for her beautiful-but-dumb Dorabella in Cosï Fan Tutte. This year, she went still further afield, took on the bearded lady in Stravinsky's Rake's Progress, and managed to give the grotesque part a feeling of femininity and more than its measure...
...American premiere of a full-length opera by a man whom many consider the greatest composer of the 20th century would have been a good opportunity for a cover story on Igor Stravinsky and The Rake's Progress. Instead, we were offered a nauseating little brushoff, squeezed in after a cover story on a female popular singer who, not just incidentally, represents "success" in a way that a great composer of serious music . . . could not possibly...
...suppose The Rake's Progress will remain on the Met roster after this season. I can't imagine Blanche Thebom with a beard...
Short Change. In Milwaukee, Tomie Looney dropped a $5 bill in a sewer, got help from Sewer Department Employee John Krzewina, who fished around in the hole with a long-handled rake for half an hour, finally dredged up a muddy $1 bill...
Igor Stravinsky's new opera. The Rake's Progress, headed into the Metropolitan Opera for its U.S. premiere last week and there, before a large audience of well-wishers (and an estimated 9,000,000 who listened on radio), fell flat on it's libretto. Continental capitals, more used to new operas than the U.S., had taken The Rake pretty much in stride since its Venetian premiere (TIME, Sept.24, 1951). But as the first modern work the Met had produced in five years, it seemed pretty effete. Written by Poet W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman...