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...passive throughout the picture, largely unconscious of the awful fate that is overtaking him. He therefore puts up no moral struggle against his fate, and without struggle there is no drama. Many spectators will be inclined to agree with the character who remarks in the concluding scene: "Mamma mia, what a disgusting mess...
...granddaughter of two Methodist ministers). She talks about "the Omnipotent" as naturally as if he were her neighbor. "I never go onstage," says Leontyne, "without saying a prayer-sometimes an extra prayer before arias like D'amor sull'ali rosee in Trovatore or O patria mia in Aïda." And the debut? "I just stood there in the wings and thought: 'Dear Jesus, you got me into this...
...singers sang two arias at the Met last week and suddenly made clear that, vocally, opera is in the midst of a new golden age. Soprano Leontyne Price, in Aïda, sang the famous O patria mia with such velvety beauty, such abundance of power, that she overshadowed most other recent Aïdas. Later in the same week, Birgit Nilsson sang Turandot's climactic scene in a way that will be remembered for years as the fulfillment of the opera's own description of its heroine: "Fire and ice." If two such performances can happen within...
Stealthily, and above all "scientifically," the gang prepares to take its objective, a neighborhood jewelry store. The plan involves a vacant apartment through which the store can be entered. Mamma mia! A few days before the robbery the gang discovers that the apartment is not vacant at all. Two nice old ladies live there-they just never open the shutters. Fortunately, the old ladies have a pretty young housemaid. The boxer makes a date with her. She falls madly in love-and impulsively announces that she has quit...
...FATIMA MIA...