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...began the career of Rudolf Nureyev in the West. As entrances go, it could not have been more compelling if it had been choreographed by Alfred Hitchcock. In the four years since his leap to freedom, Nureyev (pronounced Nu-ray-yef) has never stopped going up. At first he was a side-show curiosity, a defector in tights. Critics dubbed him "the dancing bear" and "the boy Sputnik." But as he danced across the stages of Europe and North America, the wondering soon turned to wonder. Now, on the eve of a three-month return tour of the U.S. with...
Munich heard her for the first time last year. Staatsoper's Director Rudolf Hartmann was so impressed by her performance that he staged last week's special La Traviata for her. Stratas did not let him down. Her singing of Verdi's virginal strumpet, Violetta, swept the packed house into a record 43 minutes of tumultuous applause. Raved the Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Stratas intuitively found everything that makes the part touching, the erotic flair of the doomed girl, the fire and despair of her heart. Her light, balanced soprano obeys each impulse: from tender lyricism...
...Teresa recalls. But reviewers noticed her in the small parts, called her "the baby Callas." She had the brash drive of an expectant star. After a lunch at the White House with President Kennedy in 1961, she told reporters: "The soup was lukewarm, the chicken tasteless." She kept pestering Rudolf Bing tirelessly for better roles. In the best operatic tradition, opportunity came on two days' notice: she replaced ailing Lucine Amara as Liu. Despite excellent notices, Bing still held her back: "You have plenty of time." She retorted: "I want to sing while I am young," and took...
...spat: "Prussian tactics!" And six years passed. Finally, last June, at the instigation of mutual friends, the Metropolitan Opera's Rudolf Bing went a-courting in Paris. This time he said pretty please, and she said yes, and they made a date...
...reading his own domestic verse ("Men marry what they need, I marry you"), while the camera watches his wife pouring herself coffee in their Metuchen, N.J., kitchen. Among future subjects: Painter Leonard Baskin, Indian Composer Ravi Shankar, Author P. G. Wodehouse, Film Maker Jean Renoir, and Metropolitan Opera Impresario Rudolf Bing...