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...Boom. Foreshadowed by Leonardo da Vinci in 1508, contact lenses were first made in Europe in the 1880s. They were big, covering most of the sclera (the white of the eye), heavy (made of glass), hard to fit and forbiddingly expensive. Early plastic lenses were also of the big scleral type, had to float on a bath of special wetting fluid, and could be worn only four to five hours at a stretch. Then came the methyl-methacrylate plastics (of the Plexiglas family), the discovery that fluid was unnecessary if lenses had a hole to permit tears to pass beneath...
...half hours of Mozart. The intermissions can bear abbreviations better. And occasionally, it might be nice to have Cosi in Italian, because it is pleasant to hear Mozart sound natural. Whether Cosi in English is a sound educational policy or not, the translation is stilted and unlovely, while Da Ponte's Italian is fluent and graceful...
...being English. His cosmetics, says he grandly, are drawn from history, e.g., General Potemkin's letters taught him the oils used by Catherine the Great (Siberian fir needles, hay, geranium and lilac), and Anne Marie's exercises are supposedly based on a calisthenics drill devised by Leonardo da Vinci. "It is not a lesser masterpiece than his Mona Lisa...
...cancel. German-born Tenor Liebl, 44, who subbed for Vinay at the season's first Tristan, in which Soprano Nilsson scored her dramatic triumph, phoned the Met at 2 to say that he, too, was in no condition to go on. U.S.-born Tenor Albert Da Costa. 33, phoned in at 4 with the same report. With no other Wagnerian tenors available, Bing gave Vinay the first act, Liebl the second and Da Costa the third. Backstage was Throat Specialist Dr. Leo P. Reckford, who treated all three tenors...
Vinay negotiated the hour-long opening act commendably, while Liebl huddled backstage in an overcoat waiting to change costumes with him. Liebl sang the second act in adequate style, and Da Costa turned in some of the best singing of the evening during Tristan's third-act death delirium. All three took separate curtain calls and somewhat reluctantly posed for photographers with Soprano Nilsson, who can outthunder even a perfectly healthy Heldentenore. "I was just afraid to catch the bacillus." said she. "They were all really wonderful, my Tristans." Were the tenors all really ailing? "They said they were...