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...grated window in Venice. "This," he said, "is the kind of libretto I want for my next opera." Failing in his lifelong search for a girl who combined frailness with sensuality, he built those qualities into a procession of operatic heroines - Manon Lescaut, Mimi in Bohème, Cio-Cio-San in Butterfly, Liù in Turandot. His obsession with swift love followed by swifter death gave his work a narrow emotional range, a failing of which he was conscious. He envied Wagner his heroic themes and majestic brasses, idolized Verdi's poetic tragedies, in later life even made...
Despite efforts of federal and state mediators, negotiations with the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, AFL-CIO, broke down Friday. Federal mediator John J. Sullivan has indicated that he will be available today if the union and management wish to delay the walkout...
...fireflies that spangled the night sky during the love duet in Act I have been abandoned (there are no fireflies during the cherry-blossom season) ; though Puccini's gonglike orchestral effects are kept, the onstage gong that signaled the wedding is out (gongs are sounded at Japanese funerals). Cio-Cio-San no longer punches holes in the shoji (paper screen) walls of the house to watch for Pinkerton's return-for the good reason that a shoji slides open. Director Aoyama has Cio-Cio-San bind her legs before her suicide to prevent exposing them ("Even dying...
Tribute to a People. Good as the new production was, it was the performance that made last week's Butterfly truly memorable. In her first Metropolitan appearance in the role, Italian Soprano Antonietta Stella, 28, made her Cio-Cio-San a wonderful complex of childish fever and womanly fire, effectively underplayed the bathetic frills the role is heir to. Her large, easily ranging voice shimmered and soared ecstatically, brought the house alive with a roar after her famous aria...
...CIO yesterday was reported considering a plan to offer special charters in the federation to any Teamsters Union locals wanting to secede from their expelled parent truck union. Federation sources said the AFL-CIO has received a number of such requests from Teamsters locals and probably will decide on the matter at the AFL-CIO Executive Council sessions starting Feb. 3 at Miami Beach...