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...opera-so he created Orfeo and Euridice, with their set, face-front arias. Bellini (1801-35) and Donizetti (1797-1848) thought Gluck's characters were insufficiently real-so they created the stylized Norma and Lucia. Wagner (1813-83) avowed the same sentiment-and created Lohengrin and his swan. Puccini (1858-1924) proclaimed a brand of truthfulness he called verismo -and created Turandot, the princess of a China that could never have existed anywhere...
...family resemblance but is longer, lower and rounder. Italy was represented by a glittering array of high-priced Ferraris, Maseratis and Alfa Romeos as well as by the nimble, lower-priced Fiats. As always, the Rolls-Royce exhibit drew large crowds. They may have been looking at a dying swan. The rumor in Britain is that at the London auto show next month the company will unveil a new Rolls with a lower, less boxy profile, disk brakes and independent suspension for the rear wheels...
...opera buffs will have the chance to see Wieland's workmanship when he directs Lohengrin at the new Met in November 1966. Could be that he will bring a jet-propelled swan...
...third play, Chekhov's Swan Song, would in itself be enough reason for going to the Ex tonight. Like much of Chekhov's work, the play is concerned with the conflict of old and new, the present and what has gone before. This conflict is centered in the figure of the old actor, who is superbly portrayed by Julian Lopez Morrillas One moment he is the aged, broken, drunk old man; the next, one sees his genious flash through as he monologues excerpts from Antony's funeral oration and Lear's storm speech. Eyes blazing, he momentarily recaptures the brilliance...
Garrulous comment to write groovy at the range of but I doubt that any coming a folk virtous to him. More critics place Rush at evolving city-blues somewhere obscurity and crass country. While purists may the motley influences gone into his style-- as disparate as the Swan Silvertones and Eric von Rush sings more good than most folksing today...