Word: sopranos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Civil War to forget her doomed love for Raymond Barlac, a Southern aristocrat. The wide-ranging plot, based on Dello Joio's own scenario, gave Designer Rouben Ter-Arutunian ample scope for lush sets that imparted a sense of grandeur to the opera's five scenes. American Soprano Mary Costa, who played Ninette, sang beautifully but seemed lost in the schmalz-larded story. Only the heroine's quadroon mother, Cleo, superbly sung by Contralto Irene Dalis, took on the dimensions of life-a singular achievement while coping with some embarrassing lyrics: "Love had fled from your white...
Tracked down in Venice by frantic transatlantic phone calls, holidaying Soprano Anna Moffo, 26, jetted home posthaste to take over from ailing Australian Joan Sutherland in the San Francisco Opera's opening-night performance of Lucia di Lammermoor. Delighted by her rapid rise in what she describes as "dog eat dog" divasville, the handsome, Pennsylvania-born singer was less than delighted with the fast flight, exhaustedly proclaimed: "I'm violently against the jet-and-taxi age; the prima donna of 50 years ago had it much better with the slow boat and the horse and buggy...
...dudgeon hitting high C, Soprano Renata Tebaldi scoffed at the suggestion that she was defecting from the Metropolitan Opera this season because of other commitments made during the Met's recent lengthy labor negotiations. Actual reason for her desertion, charged the prima donna, was that the Met management had shamelessly violated a promise "of many years" by scratching its scheduled revival of a Tebaldi favorite, Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur...
...born Conductor Smith, 30, who "wanted to be a choir leader for as long as I can remember," established the group at the Los Angeles Japanese Methodist Church in 1955. At full strength it now numbers nearly 60 singers-white, Negro, Japanese, Hawaiian and Chinese. Explains pert, pony-tailed Soprano Uta Shimotskuka, 23: "With a good group like this, it was easy to attract many young singers who heard that we preferred Orlando di Lasso, Palestrina and also Faure and Poulenc to the inevitable Handel and Mendelssohn...
Married. Lucy Monroe, 49, whose lyric soprano rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner has opened thousands of civic whingdings (World Series ball games, national political conventions, etc.); and Harold Marc Weinberg, 51, Manhattan attorney; both for the first time; in Manhattan...