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Ominous Cloud. In addition to Lucia, the Met is mounting new productions of Samson et Delila and Salome. In January, Leontyne Price will sing Cosí fan Tutte for the first time, followed by the conducting debut of William Steinberg (TIME, Sept. 11) two months later. In March, after an absence of seven years, Maria Callas will make her long-awaited return to the Met to sing Tosca...
...cause in the Northeast had quelled any enthusiasm, but Goldwater, having long ago descended from the rarefied, steely heights of the Cow Palace, spoke with a weary, methodical voice, like a man tramping through a bog. His campaign was at slack tide, and Goldwater showed what George Gallup et. al. have been telling us all along...
...York Philharmonic while Leonard Bernstein is on his sabbatical. Steinberg will also make his debut with the Metropolitan Opera, conducting 24 performances of three operas. "I have some real killers arranged for New York," he says gleefully, referring to Berlioz' rarely performed Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale, a work for 180 musicians that will require the West Point Band as well as the Philharmonic, Leon Kirchner's Second Piano Concerto, and the American première of Bartok's Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra. "Then I have something for the New York snobs-an all-Mendelssohn...
...Folle Twistante because of her appearance in a movie with guitar-swacking Johnny Hallyday. But then Svengali Roger Vadim snared her, paled her complexion, and hollowed out her cheeks for his modern-dress version of the Marquis de Sade's Justine, which he called Le Vice et La Vertu. She played Vertu. Catherine presented Vadim with a son, Christian, before he left her for a new Trilby, U.S. Actress Jane Fonda. Catherine holds no grudge against Vadim ("I have my Christian, my Vadim in miniature") and clings to the image he created...
Scopitone, which has been the rage of France for the past four years, was invented by a firm that sounds as if it had been founded by Jules Verne; Compagnie d'Applications Mecaniques à 1'Electronique au Cinéma et à 1'Atomistique (CAMECA). Since then it has spread from Marseilles to Macao; Nikita Khrushchev even has one, loaded with Marxian uplift featurettes. Actually, Scopitone's "musies" are descended from U.S. Soundies, which during World War II filled bus terminals and B-girl grottoes with grainy, black-and-white productions of The Flat Foot Floogee...