Word: cherubini
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...missing, too, from the 18th century arias with which Miss Berganza opened her recital: she sang them very nicely indeed (except for a disastrous trill in Handel's Lascia ch'io pianga), but instead of the grand manner and absolute command of style so necessary for Alessandro Scarlatti or Cherubini, she provided a good deal of hand-clasping and those imploring looks to the heavens which ought to be banned forever from the concert stage. In Rossini's Non Piu mesta (from La Cenerentola)--and Miss Berganza has something of a reputation as a Rossini specialist--one again heard impeccable...
Confounding enemies who gossiped that she had gone into seclusion for a nose bob, volatile Soprano Maria Callas returned to Milan's La Scala five days after undergoing punishing treatment for sinusitis and won 25 rapturous curtain calls in Cherubini's Medea. Warbled Callas. tossing off the hasty comeback as mere noblesse obbligato: "Everyone else can be ill and get sympathy, but I cannot afford to be sick because the press watches my every movement for a chance to get a smack...
...denning feeling by alterations in placement and tone (fortunate for Farrell, since for all her sensitivity to mood she is not far ahead of Tebaldi in acting ability). Although she has the power to sing Wagner, she has stuck largely with an Italian repertory, has made her performance of Cherubini's Medea a stirring modern classic...
...summer devoted to the dolce vita, volcanic Soprano Maria Callas, 37, prepared to erupt for the first time before the cameras. Reportedly bankrolled by her great and good friend, Maritime Moneybags Aristotle Onassis, Maria is planning to make a film version of one of her most successful operatic roles, Cherubini's Medea. Setting: Milan's La Scala, not far from the courtroom where Maria's estranged husband, Industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini, avowedly plans to enliven an upcoming legal separation trial with an angry aria on La Callas' "wanton search of happiness that she should realize...
...Worlds rounds into its third year with its finances noticeably sagging but its programing as lively as ever. The opener is a new production of La Boheme, directed by Menotti and conducted by Thomas Schippers. Also on the program: three works by the newly formed Spoleto ballet company, Cherubini's rarely heard Missa Solemnis...