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...plain jane on those TV potboilers, they spoil a good thing." Said Harper's Bazaar of Avedon's gallery girls: "They belong to women who are sloe-eyed to the soul." For years, most Swedes have believed that Heavyweight Boxing King Ingemar Johansson, 27, and pretty Birgit Lundgren, 23, were much too friendly ever to get serious about each other. But in Stockholm last week, "Ingo" surprised nearly everybody by slipping a plain gold engagement ring on Birgit's finger. Recently back from Egypt, he was asked how much Birgit would fetch on the bride market there...
...spectacular when it surged over the orchestra in Siegmund's furious outbursts, but it was also wonderfully expressive in the quieter waters of the first act's tenderly lyrical Winterstuerme, wichen dem Wonnemond. Vickers received stirring if somewhat uneven support from Sopranos Aase Nordmo Loevberg as Sieglinde, Birgit Nilsson as Bruennhilde, and a whole troop of excellent Valkyries, but he was plainly the star of the evening. Soprano Nilsson: "I hope Vickers will be for me what Melchior was to Flagstad...
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Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The Metropolitan Opera's new Wagnerian star, Birgit Nilsson, appears in distinctly nonoperatic company: Comedienne Kay Ballard, Pop Singer Jaye P. Morgan and Dancer Carol Haney. Color...
Triston and Isolde, of all works, is the biggest hit at the Metropolitan Opera. The reason for this sensation is the Widely publicized and truly splendid performance of the statuesque (and this is not intended as a euphemism for "fat") Swedish dramatic soprano, Birgit Nilsson, whose Isolde was accorded a tremendous ovation at the first performance of the Met's new production last month...