Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tempestuous Diva Maria Callas gave her first U.S. recital of the season in Kansas City, Mo., showed a celebrity-studded white-tie S.R.O. audience that she is as great a performer as she is a singer. Told that a bomb may have been planted under the stage of the Midland Theater, Callas sang a Don Giovanni aria before she allowed Governor James T. Blair Jr. to shoo her fans outside, kept to her dressing room nearby while cops searched high and low for half an hour, finished her program after the bomb scare was pronounced a hoax. After a thunderous...
What nettled the dissenting purists was Ritchard's addition of broadly comic stage business, which kept the house rippling with laughter. When the young page Cherubino pours out his adolescent romantic yearnings in Act I, he does so in Ritchard's version while holding on to a pair of women's drawers draped across a clothesline full of underthings. At the act's end, when Figaro mockingly congratulates Cherubino on his future military career, he punctuates the aria Non più andrai with a solid boot to the rump. But Ritchard's worst sin, according...
Pianist Richter-Haaser's postwar reputation spread rapidly; he has played with virtually every major European orchestra, been hailed as the successor to such German greats as Gieseking and Backhaus. Says Richter-Haaser ruefully: "I do not go on stage to play wrong notes. But the important thing is the idea. The piano must not be like a machine...
...intricate piping system to bring the water of the torrent, the Patoclus, to the baths. Another major Roman innovation was the addition of five retaining walls and a cylindrical enclosed area almost as tall as the rest of the building. The building has been built in three separate stages: the as-yet undated early stage, the late Roman stage and the Byzantine stage, part of which had always been visible. The infuriating quality of "CG" is that it gets taller and taller. Partial excavation reveals two levels supported by a third. Flooding prevents a definitive look at this third level...
...Harvard most of the group attended at least one class, and all of them visited and talked with student groups in their areas of interest. Of course, the "cultural representatives" of the delegation, namely pianist Vlasenko and movie and stage actress Zinaida Kirienko had the most invitations to visit groups in action...