Word: regaling
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This month alone, she has already performed a trilogy of operatic queens at the New York City Opera that amply confirms her own regal gifts: Elizabeth I in Donizetti's Roberto Devereux (see cover), Shemakha in Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or and Cleopatra in Julius Caesar. Starting this week she and the New York City Opera will recreate all three during a three-week guest stand in Los Angeles (planned for next spring is a new production by Beverly and the company of another Donizetti queen, Maria Stuarda). Early next month, she will give two performances of Lucia...
...grandiose, like a friendly monarch. Sills strides onto a stage bobbing her head and grinning, like an elegant shepherdess. Where Sutherland sails into a fast aria with grand nonchalance, Sills is likely to bounce up and down with infectious self-enjoyment. Sutherland usually finishes with a smile and a regal bow, Sills with a somewhat defiant toss of her head as if to say: "There! Top that!" So far, nobody has been able to top either of them...
...gave Mrs. Gandhi a gracious welcome on the South Lawn of the White House. It was a glorious autumn day in Washington, with the flags snapping in the wind and monuments gleaming in the sunshine. Thirteen silver trumpets sounded a fanfare from the White House portico. Then Mrs. Gandhi, regal in a brown sari and cashmere cape, reviewed the troops with the President...
...late. The price war is on, and in Detroit they are giving away dishes, while elsewhere there are "football widows' nights" on Mondays, "early bird" matinees, even free admissions on off days. San Francisco's Strand, for $1.25, offers a triple feature plus bingo. The nearby Regal one-ups it with four pictures for the price...
...guard was right. There was something regal about Hakim's presence. Even as he lay in a jail ward bed, a torn hospital night shirt hung loosely about him like a toga, his uncombed hair greying at the temples and behind his ears. Hakim exuded an easy hegemony. However, it was not the regality of a king at court, but of a condemned king held in the Tower...