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...last Wednesday's gala opening-night crowd seemed a bit too self-consciously arty, even for Cambridge, it was probably because of the unusually large number of reviewers and other theater-types invited to witness the first (snow-delayed) performance of the new company. But the nature of the audience itself will change; what is important is that people support this fledgling institution. Too many starving actors, you know...
...will be in a series of performances of Die Fledermaus at the San Diego Opera in October 1980. Her co-star will be Joan Sutherland, and the two divas will alternate in the roles of Adele and Rosalinda. That should be a sizzling ticket. So should the fund-raising gala Sills hopes to star in later at the New York City Opera-exactly 25 years after her debut there as Rosalinda. Said Sills: "In 1980, I will be 51. I have no operas left that I want to sing. I have sung in every opera house I wanted to sing...
...DIRECTION doesn't really shine until the final 15 minutes of The Turning Point. Deedee's long pent-up sense of frustration and envy over Emma's ultimate professional success comes spilling out during the final showdown between the two long-time friends, which follows the company's special gala performance establishing Emilia as a full-fledged rising star in the company. The accumulated venom flies fast and free during this encounter of the caustic kind, building up to a classic display of feminine fisticuffs. The scene is handled perfectly by Ross, as the two friends suddenly dissolve into laughter...
From Russia with love came ebullient Poet Yevgeni Yevtushenko. In Rome on a patriotic mission-to read some poems at a gala Italian program in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Russian Revolution-Yevtushenko also went to the theater with an Italian heiress, jogged in the Villa Borghese and told a reporter how deeply he had been affected by Federico Fellini's most recent movie, Casanova. "I am a woman chaser," said the poet, 44, "and Fellini made me understand how hateful it is to touch a woman you don't love. From the moment...
Jimmy Carter, before attending an American Film Institute gala: "In the South, we date life either before Gone With the Wind or after. But perhaps we saw a different version than the rest of the country. One of my favorite scenes was the burning of Schenectady, New York-just before Grant surrendered to Robert...