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...Prince & Swan. If this were not enough, Nureyev has been further blessed with a classic partner-Dame Margot Fonteyn, long the reigning ballerina of the Western world. Since they teamed up on the stage of the Royal Ballet three seasons ago, a mystique has grown up around them that rivals the most ethereal fantasies they portray onstage. They have about them all the magic makings for a fairy-tale romance. He is 27, a moody, mysterious Tartar bristling with savage charm. She is 45, an alabaster beauty of elegant refinement. He is the glittering young prince in the first bloom...
...restaging of the Kirov's full-length Raymonda was a pretty, sugar-spun spectacle and, along with Nureyev's offstage antics, the roaring sensation of last year's Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds in Italy. Last October he rechoreographed the Petipa-Ivanov version of Swan Lake in Vienna. In his strong belief that "the Amazonian takeover" of the ballet has resulted in an appalling denigration of the male, Nureyev scissored Tchaikovsky's music, jiggered dances, and virtually reworked every number until the dreamy fairytale prince emerged as a rip-snorting hero who dominated both the dance...
...present company's 55 dancers are competent, and some are first-rate. Lupe Serrano was a dazzling, feather-light prima ballerina in the "Black Swan" pas de deux, Sallie Wilson was a dreamy and hungry psyche trapped in Sargasso's sea of weeds, Toni Lander's split leaps in Etudes were electric, and Veronika Mlakar in Giselle made a Queen of the Willis of intense malevolence. Royes Fernandez is the company's able, and sometimes distinguished premier danseur, and young Bruce Marks has the extra ebullience that sets off a star from the corps...
...said he "sings with enough power and feeling to bring the roof down, and he does." Alta Maloney (Traveler) called it "a whopper of a show-stopper, sung in a voice that made chills go up and down the spine." T.K. Morse (Patriot Ledger) found him "glorious." Bradford Swan (Providence Journal) said Price sang "superbly," and Donald Cragin (Worcester Telegram) felt he performed "with the verve of one who has practiced generations for the moment." Elliot Norton (Boston Record) spoke of his "huge voice of great resonance," and later expanded his praise extensively in his half-hour TV discussion...
...UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. Young love's spring song fades gradually to a swan song in this sadly cynical French musical by Director Jacques Demy...