Word: covent
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...University of Barcelona law student who is now her personal manager, Victoria says she would really like just to "sit in our house in Barcelona." She has small chance. After a second Manhattan recital this month she will fly to Paris for a concert, then to London's Covent Garden to sing in Manon, La Bohème and Lohengrin, then on to La Scala...
There are few names that oldtime opera lovers care to mention in the same breath with Caruso and Scotti, but Claudia Muzio (1892-1936) is one of them. The daughter of an Italian operatic stage manager, she grew up backstage in London's Covent Garden, Manhattan's Metropolitan. Caruso, with whom she made a stunning U.S. debut as Tosca in 1916, once said that Claudia "knew all of our stage tricks before she wore long skirts." She had a voice to match her acting: she could, and did, sing coloratura, lyric and dramatic soprano parts with equal ease...
...Edinburgh Festival a fortnight ago, it seemed to Directress Lucia Chase (TIME, May 8) that "everybody liked everything"; Edinburgh's Lord Provost sent an enthusiastic thank you to Harry Truman, who had given his blessing to the tour. Last week, after a Ballet Theatre opener at Covent Garden, the London Daily Mail solemnly observed that the U.S.'s No. 1 ballet company was "what is popularly known...
Backstage in London's Covent Garden, the 46 young dancers were scared stiff. For one thing, in rehearsals they had found the stage floor rather rough. Said one dancer: "I've never had to darn my toe shoes so much." And the British balletomanes they were to face for the first time were rumored to be even rougher. Wailed 20-year-old Dancer Melissa Hayden: "Gee, my stomach-I'm in real pain. I don't know how I can use my legs. I just want to hunch...
...with the company on the dark day in March 1933 when Hitler's hoodlums broke up Busch's performance of Rigoletto. Soon after Busch left the country, Schoeffler went to Vienna, where he sang throughout the war. Since the war, engagements at opera houses from Milan to Covent Garden have kept him on the move...