Word: sopranos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Through all this interference, Mezzo Soprano Fiorenza Cossotto and Bass Lorenzo Alvary-the opera's entire singing cast-struggled to tell Scarlatti's simple allegory of an aging Roman centurion's efforts to win a Catalan coquette long after the decline of the Roman Empire had doomed to failure any such suit. The singers struggled against impossible odds. Three more curtain-size Dali tableaux fell, each full of the usual Dalian symbols: butterflies, breasts, limp watches and legions of crutches...
Negotiations Resumed. But no one was prepared to call the canceled season irretrievably lost. Most of the Met singers were behaving as if they expected to be back at the old stand in the fall. Only two-Sopranos Birgit Nilsson and Anna Moffo-had announced their availability to other opera houses. In response to a pleading wire from Soprano Leontyne Price (who was to open the Met season in Girl of the Golden West), Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg called Bing and the union and offered his negotiating services to New York Mayor Robert Wagner. At week...
After a summer devoted to the dolce vita, volcanic Soprano Maria Callas, 37, prepared to erupt for the first time before the cameras. Reportedly bankrolled by her great and good friend, Maritime Moneybags Aristotle Onassis, Maria is planning to make a film version of one of her most successful operatic roles, Cherubini's Medea. Setting: Milan's La Scala, not far from the courtroom where Maria's estranged husband, Industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini, avowedly plans to enliven an upcoming legal separation trial with an angry aria on La Callas' "wanton search of happiness that she should...
...locale the mind of a child. In its cast are teapots as big as a man, cats who talk of love, squirrels who ruminate on redemption. It calls for 18 principals and a chorus of tree frogs, and one of its climactic solo passages by a Chinese cup (mezzo-soprano) consists of this mad litany, set to a foxtrot tempo...
Beverly, Mass., North Shore Music Theater: Met Soprano Mary Curtis-Verna in The Great Waltz...