Word: tenoritis
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...Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, the soprano was felled by a virus; she left the role to Baltimore's Phyllis Frankel, a singer who studied for an operatic career with famed Soprano Rosa Ponselle, has appeared with New York City Opera. Then the title-role tenor came down with laryngitis during dress rehearsal, was replaced by Mallory Walker, a 23-year-old soldier from Fort Myer, Va., where he is singing in the U.S. Army Chorus. Walker had never sung the Rake role before but had learned it as understudy, hopes to become a professional singer...
...tender helpmate than a driven woman goading her weak husband to murder. But in the sleepwalking scene she rendered Verdi's compassionate music with memorable grace. As Macbeth, Baritone Leonard Warren walked through his part woodenly but sang as well as ever, while as Macduff, Tenor Carlo Bergonzi delivered one of the evening's real stunners...
...anyway. Delighted to have Maria under its wing, the imaginative American Opera Society, which specializes in concert versions of rare items, agreed to bring forth at Carnegie Hall a fine old showcase for her fiery talents (Bellini's Il Pirata), allowed Maria to bring along her own conductor, tenor, baritone. Success was assured. The stiff prices ($33 top) fazed few of her fans, who applauded the Callasthenics lustily, ahed her mad scene, stopped cheering only when a stagehand doused the lights...
...next 2½ hours the President made more changes, deletions, marginal notes, here and there ordered re-emphasis. The tenor of the message: hold-the-line fiscal management. On defense, the President wanted to stress the need to cut down on costly weapons duplication. On agriculture, the President hoped and expected that Congress would reduce the drain of crop-support programs. On foreign aid, the President wanted an increase in funds that was modest in terms of the need, e.g., a jump from $400 million to $700 million for the Development Loan Fund. Already the President had ordered a whole...
...Horse's Mouth. Joyce Cary's hymn to hobohemia, as Alec Guinness bellows it forth in his best whisky tenor, makes the year's best British comedy (TIME...