Word: callases
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Every man, of course, must choose his own Carmen. While Price's voice has an earthy authority and musky beauty, her sexiness, is somehow impersonal and incantatory. Victoria de los Angeles (with Sir Thomas Beecham, on Angel) is more vivacious and brilliant. Scheduled soon to make her recorded debut...
Springtime, and lunch at a restaurant in the Bois de Boulogne-who could resist the combination? Certainly not Maria Meneghini Callas, 40, or maybe it was Metropolitan Opera Manager Rudolf Bing, 62, who proved only human after all. At any rate, the two kissed and made up in Paris in...
Sir: Mme. Callas enjoyed a tremendous success in Paris as Norma [June 26]; the boos came from the anti-Callas faction. They may boo her, but they really pay her the highest compliment by paying "Callas prices" at the box office. They may hate her, but they just can'...
As soon as the curtain dropped on the performance of Bellini's Norma, fist fights erupted, insults bounced be tween boxes, and the grandly helmeted Gardes Républicaines clanked into action. One bejeweled matron tore the glasses off a startled young man next to her; another dug her...
Pro-and anti-Callas factions have been squaring off ever since the celebrated diva opened in Norma a month ago. But the big uproar began when at one performance she reached for a high C and nothing came out, eliciting a cry of "Take her to the cloakroom!" from the...