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...original conception of a resident repertory company by drawing on a "really good" new generation of British-trained singers. Figaro, for example, boasts several comparative youngsters who had never sung important roles at Covent Garden before the Davis regime (among them Tenor Robert Tear and pearly voiced Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa, who scored a sensation as the Countess). Says Davis: "If I find a dozen first-class singers, we shall have what we want. Then we can stimulate ourselves and our audiences by importing guests. But I don't want international singers coming in here and fighting with their...
LIVING WELL IS THE BEST REVENGE, by Calvin Tomkins. High life in Paris and on the Côte d'Azur with two rich Americans, one of whom became F. Scott Fitzgerald's Dick Diver in Tender Is the Night. Slight but beautiful...
...Dickens'. At this early stage one can see, especially in the Rose Period, that urge toward nostalgic generalization that repeatedly crept into Picasso's art in later years. The circus performers in Family of Saltimbanques (8) are conceived in the manner of a Watteau fête champêtre, and Picasso apparently tried to rival the psychological tension of glance and gesture in that master's work; their fragile simplicity is idealized; it is a bruised, poor Arcadia, but Arcadia still, inhabited by a species of post-industrial Noble Savage...
...Window-1956; 54. Aries: The Arena in Front of the Rhone-1960; 55. Le Déjeuner sur l'Herbe-1961; 56. The Artist and His Model-1963; 57. Rembrandt and Saskia-1963; 58. The Sabines-1963; 59. Femme Couchée-1964; 60. Tête d'Homme-1969; 61. Pierrot and Harlequin...
During World War II, American forces liberated miles of beaches along France's CÔte d'Azur. Ever since, it has been a struggle to keep them free...