Word: superbeings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mary of Scotland," another Hepburn revival, shares the bill. Except for a superb scene of the murder of her faithful servant, played nicely by John Carradine, this historical gumbo is leaden and deadly...
Last week, Edinburgh's second annual festival ended. For three weeks thousands of music lovers had heard the greatest of music, from Bach to Bartok, played by such orchestras as Amsterdam's superb, 65-year-old Concertgebouw and Rome's famed Augusteo. They had heard the Mozart piano concertos, performed unforgettably by their finest living interpreter-Pianist Artur Schnabel. They had seen Mozart's operatic masterpieces, Don Giovanni and Cosi fan Tutti, given with polish by a company that is fast becoming the best in the business-Britain's Glyndebourne. They had heard superlative choral...
Moira Shearer's pert, clean-limbed dancing is by no means up to the superb technical and dramatic skill of Sadler's Wells' prima ballerina, Margot Fonteyn. But Moira does have what one starry-eyed London critic called "deerlike littleness and midsummer coloring...
...piece on New York is superb as the city itself...
...even Verdi finally fell before the power of Boito's poetry and his superb dramatic skill. Said Verdi, after completing Otello at 73: "If I were 30 years younger, I should like to begin a new opera tomorrow-on the condition that Boito provided the libretto." Boito did, and the result (with Shakespeare's help) was Falstaff, one of the greatest triumphs of both words & music of them...