Word: sopranos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old macaroni maker is going into opera, he says, to "fulfill one of my fondest dreams," will sing the basso profundo role of Don Basilic in a charity performance of The Barber of Seville with a Manhattan opera company early next year. Signora Buitoni. an ex-coloratura soprano who knows all about Giovanni's booming arias, will attend his operatic debut. "After that," quipped Buitoni. "she will probably fly to Europe to avoid the noise." . . . Winging into Paris' Orly Airport, Boston Matron Rose Kennedy, 70. was forthwith thrust into a quarter-hour TV interview, proved as nimble...
...England's Glyndebourne Festival last week, Soprano Joan Sutherland, playing the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, rushed disheveled from the wings to shriek lamentations over the fallen body of her father. Restlessly roaming the house, her husband. Pianist Richard Bonynge. sweated out every note. He had his own lament: "We have as bad reputations as ballet dancers' mothers.'' He meant himself and all the other incarnations of that fabled musical folk figure, the opera diva's husband...
...operatic husbands go to such lengths, but most of them work hard to fulfill "their contract, marriage"-in the words of Recording Executive Walter Legge, who is married to Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. And despite frequent criticism, many are admired in the trade as career builders of taste and intelligence...
Among the more successful teams: ¶Vienna-born Walter Surovy was a matinee idol in prewar Prague when he met Bronx-born Mezzo-Soprano Rise Stevens, then barely launched on her singing career. They were married in 1939, and at war's end. after an unsuccessful fling at Hollywood, Surovy settled down to the fulltime business of making Rise into a "national celebrity." He sent her to top Hollywood and Paris dress designers, converted her from a lank-haired brunette into a curly blonde, insisted that she take dancing lessons at the M-G-M studios...
...classic Spanish woman in her home. In private life, she is my wife, not I the consort of Victoria de los Angeles." ¶Belgrade-born Dragan Debeljevic, 39, abandoned plans for a career as an art and musical historian to guide the career of his wife, Swiss-born Soprano Lisa Delia Casa. While he was studying at the University of Zurich he heard Delia Casa sing, married her not long after. By his testimony, his wife was not an ambitious girl ("she was not born for this profession") and had to be worried by him into a star contract with...