Word: toscas
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...conflict went right down to the final curtain, as it tends to do in opera. Just before the New Year's Eve performance of Tosca last week, the members of the Metropolitan Opera orchestra voted 72-5 to accept a new contract proposal given them only hours before. If they had voted no and struck, the result could have been disastrous for the financially plagued Met (TIME, Dec. 29). The musicians, who were paid a minimum of $385 a week, had asked for a one-year 12% pay increase; they accepted an 11 % raise spread over this season...
...hardiest old man in the Balkans has been living it up of late with roistering high spirits. In one typical week last month, he took in a performance of Tosca at the Belgrade opera, repairing afterward to the Tri Sesira (Three Hats) Restaurant for drinking and feasting until 2 a.m. Then he drove to the mountain resort of Zlatibor, where he joined in the kolo, a lively folk dance, made some speeches and visited local officials. Next morning he was host at an annual hunt for foreign diplomats at the former royal lodge of Karadjordjevo. He spurned the pursuit...
...dominate my voice," she explained. "It was not enough that I should open my mouth to sing. That's where I got into trouble." Her troubles are apparently over-at least for the moment. Callas vowed to repay Japanese hospitality by returning to Tokyo next fall in Tosca, her first full-length opera appearance since bowing out of New York's Metropolitan Opera nearly a decade...
...formal sessions. Rodino was at his desk every morning at 8 and often was still there after midnight, sometimes conferring with his staff as late as 3 a.m. When he got a chance, he relaxed by playing paddle ball on the congressional courts or by listening to opera records-Tosca is his favorite -hi the apartment he maintains near the Capitol. Weekends he spent in Newark with his wife Marianna, who had been a high school girl friend. (The Rodinos have two children-Peter, a law student at Seton Hall University, and Margaret, the wife of a Newark judge...
...contended that the Met's financial condition prevented him from achieving his "artistic ideals." He concluded: "Relieved of certain of my artistic demands, the Metropolitan may be better able to bring its financial situation into balance." Exactly what these artistic requirements might be-beyond hustling up the odd Tosca in a hurry -remained unspecified...