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Married. Eleanor Steber, 41, clarion-voiced dramatic soprano of the Metropolitan Opera; and Major Gordon Guelberth Andrews, 39, faculty member at the U.S. Army's Information School, Fort Slocum, N.Y.; both for the second time; at Fort Slocum...
...running, watery green light, and the Commendatore (no longer cumbrously on horseback) glowed dimly through the iron grille of a crypt, like a sea creature in a grotto. Through the mellow moonlit streets moved the kind of cast only a great opera house could muster: Cesare Siepi, Eleanor Steber, Lisa Della Casa, Roberta Peters, Cesare Valletti, Giorgio Tozzi, Fernando Corena, Theodor Uppman, all in top form...
...animal authority Ezio Pinza used to exude in the role. What it lacked was only a tincture of malevolence: Siepi's acting was sometimes reminiscent of the reflex actions of a sleek cat rather than of a man willing to defy Heaven to enjoy earth. Soprano Steber presented a rich, blazing, gusty-voiced Donna Anna and Soprano Delia Casa an elegantly anguished Donna Elvira. And as Leporello, Basso Fernando Corena not only lurched and grimaced about the stage in convincing pantomime of a man clutching hard to his sanity but turned in some of the finest singing...
...last lap of a strenuous 17-nation serenade through Asia, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Eleanor Steber put into Hong Kong, allowed: "You can now call me a primitive donna!" In her travels about the Orient, West Virginia-born Singer Steber, 40, a recent divorceée, had also observed some exotic marriage customs, including the blissful servitude of Oriental wives. Said she: "I now see why American women lose their husbands. The Asians sure know how to hold on to theirs. Marriage in the United States today is a highly unsatisfactory business, and American women are to blame...
...rewards for the winners are scholarships and for some contestants an eventual chance to sing at the Met. For its part the Met gets an annual look at the best talent in the U.S., has in the Auditions' 16 years panned such vocal gold as Soprano Eleanor Steber, Baritones Leonard Warren and Robert Merrill, Tenor Albert Da Costa...