Word: monaco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Fort Antoine, a 47-mm. cannon boomed the first of 101 saluting shots, and 2,500 Monegasques began to celebrate. Church bells pealed, teen-agers sang and snake-danced about Monaco's pink palace, as Prince Rainier III bowed from the balcony. About an hour before, Princess Grace delivered to her tax-free citizens a second child (the first, in 1957: Princess Caroline) and a male heir presumptive: Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre. If and when he should take the throne, the Grimaldi heir will be known as Albert...
Born. To Princess Grace of Monaco, 28, and Prince Rainier, 34: their second child, first son; in Monaco. Name: Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre. Weight: 8 Ibs. 12 oz. (see PEOPLE...
...pink stucco palace of Monaco, Princess Grace calmly awaited her second child, and Prince Rainier amused himself in the royal zoo. But behind the apparent serenity of Their Serene Highnesses, a serious political crisis lurked in the shadows. For the first time in the eight-year reign of the chubby Prince, the National Council (which is elected by Monaco's male citizens, has only advisory power) dared to challenge Rainier's status as Europe's only surviving absolute ("by divine right") monarch. Not only did the Council demand constitutional reforms from the Prince, but also that...
Fausto Cleva, not the Met's liveliest conductor, this time set his singers a brisk pace, never permitted any sagging in the supple vocal line that Verdi skillfully stitched through Arrigo Boito's libretto. As Othello, Tenor Mario del Monaco sailed onstage in full joyous shout in his "Esultate," and from there on through his Act III explosion of jealous rage, never pausing to be subtle, kept the house ringing and the stage dark with passion. Baritone Leonard Warren as lago proved again his ability to soar dramatically or modulate to a mahogany pianissimo, invested his role with...
Ponchielli: La Gioconda (Anita Cerquetti, Franca Sacchi, Mario del Monaco, Cesare Siepi, Giulietta Simionato, Ettore Bastianini; conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni; London, 3 LPs). A first-rate cast gives a racy reading to Amilcare Ponchielli's old campaigner from Venice, proves that there is a lot more to it than its pop-concert Dance of the Hours. Mellow-voiced Soprano Cerquetti gives a superb performance as "the joyous female" of the title role who loses her blind mother and her lover before she plunges a dagger in her heart. Tenor del Monaco sings so gustily that he conceals the fact...