Word: sopranos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London's Covent Garden Royal Opera House, Swedish Soprano Birgit Nilsson wowed almost everyone-critics and public alike-with her passionate singing of Brünnhilde in Wagner's Die Walküre. But one listener was unimpressed-Critic Peter Branscombe of London's Financial Times, which takes a passing interest in music. Pronounced Branscombe: "She is not yet the perfect Brünnhilde, but her sense of the stage is deepening." That one sour note was enough for Birgit to conclude that London is a town with rocks in its head. Cried she caustically: "I will...
Milan Industrialist Giovanni Meneghini has an avocation that brought him nothing but grief in the past year. He fancies himself a talent scout and keeps his ears, heart and purse open for promising young operatic divas. His most notable find: sulphurous Soprano Maria Callas, 36, whom Meneghini. now 65. discovered, had trained under Italy's best voice cultivators, persuaded to diet off 70 Ibs. down to a svelte 135. Meneghini's biggest mistake, as it turned out. was to marry Maria; they are now legally separated after ten years of marriage, and she spends many unoperatic moments with...
...with handbells, and all performers dress in genuine period costumes. Leading Drottningholm's orchestra with crackling vitality in last week's II Maestro and II Barbiere, Conductor Bertil Bokstedt was resplendent in the silk robe of an 18th century courtier. Onstage, Sweden's gifted young singers-Soprano Karin Langebo, Tenors Carl-Axel Hallgren, Arne Ohlson, Uno Stjernquist, and Basso Arne Tyren-wore the periwigs fashionable at the time of Queen Lovisa...
...stopped and, as the boos mounted, Stella fled the stage. But after 15 minutes of the sort of anger that only Italians can feel about an operatic misdemeanor, the crowd had a change of heart and began to chant: "We forgive you, Stella." Urgently prompted by the management, the soprano finally returned to the stage, supported by Baritone Giangiacomo Guelfi. Slowly advancing to the footlights, she knelt, gazed beseechingly at her public and bent forward until her forehead touched the stage. "Forgive me," said she in a squeaky voice. "I've been feeling poorly all day." The audience gave...
Married. Andre Kostelanetz, 58, Russian-born orchestra conductor whose recordings of homogenized classics and hoked-up pop works have sold some 40 million copies over the past 20 years; and Sara Gene Orcutt, 32, Oklahoma-born divorcee; both for the second time (his first: Soprano Lily Pons); in Honolulu...