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Twining & Twisting. A more conventional setting for a royal fling was the Dutch luxury liner Oranje, which its owners lent to Queen Juliana for an evening cruise along the North Sea Canal. Sporting $12 million worth of jewelry, the titled guests were joined midway by 180 college friends of Juliana's four daughters. Among the friends: a 25-year-old lawyer, Bob Steensma, who has often been photographed holding hands and drinking wine with Princess Beatrix, 24, heiress apparent to the Dutch throne...
...place beside Threepenny Opera as an operatic staple. Composer Weill may not have caught the true flavor of jazz-age America that he found so attractive, but in seeking it he caught something else-his corrosively iridescent music recalls the cold cynicism of his own generation of Europeans, caught midway between two wars...
...game was locked at 3-3 in the early moments, but the Crimson scoring machine soon took control and held it without much difficulty. Midway through the game Harvard sported a 16-3 advantage on tries by John Hutchinson, Bill Beery, Dick Schulman, and Lee Freeman. Keith Julian picked up four points on conversions...
...Midway in Jacques Offenbach's frothy operetta La Perichole, a trapdoor opens slowly onstage; from the depths of a subterranean dungeon emerges a doddering old prisoner. He has been digging through various walls for twelve years, and now he is ready to escape. He lasts no more than four minutes onstage before he is forced to flee through the trap again. But to Offenbach fans at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, the sequence is one of the comic highpoints of the evening. The man responsible: Italian-born Tenor Alessio de Paolis (pronounced: Pow-o-lees...
That early training, Tucker feels, helped him to catch on at the Met, mastering 25 major roles as he developed from a lyric tenor to a lirico spinto (midway between lyric and dramatic). He is not identified with any single role, but ranging between the romantic bel canto flights of Lucia di Lammermoor and the more declamatory style of Turandot or La Fanciulla del West, he has created some memorable characterizations: Don Jose in Carmen, Rodolfo in La Boheme, the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto...