Word: rudolf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muppets grow ever more couth. First they danced Swine Lake with Ballet Superstar Rudolf Nureyev. Now, on Nov. 12, they will sing Pigoletto with the incomparable Beverly Sills going trill to trill against the divine Miss Piggy. So far, surprisingly, there have been no pyrotechnics of temperament between the two famous divas. "She may be a pig," says Sills of her costar, "but she's not a boar, although she is a theatrical ham of no small dimensions." Miss Piggy has said nothing about Bubbles; all she does is inscrutably smile about their upcoming duellet...
...next day he and his wife Valentina, another Bolshoi principal, requested and were granted political asylum in the U.S. Like Godunov, and the famous earlier defectors from Leningrad's Kirov company -Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov-the Kozlovs were seeking greater artistic freedom in the West...
...Still, angry Soviet officials felt it necessary to hold Vlasova incommunicado at the hotel. Because the Bolshoi has long been groomed to be the showcase of Soviet culture, Godunov's flight was evidently viewed as even more of a betrayal than the earlier defections of such luminaries as Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov, who had all starred with Leningrad's Kirov Ballet...
John Conklin's set (inspired by sketches by the late Rudolf Heinrich for Santa Fe's U.S. premiere of the shorter Lulu in 1963) captures the work's heartless, hypocritical milieu with a doorway here, a sofa or a plant there. All is gelid grays and greens except for the lurid red of Lulu's dress and wig. The stage is framed by two skeletal, metallic walls that recede almost to a vanishing point. In the final scene, when Lulu has ended up as a prostitute in a London attic, the walls suggest the street below...
Carter was welcomed at the airport by a trumpet fanfare followed by almost complete silence as he shook hands with his official host, President Rudolf Kirchschläger. "We have no right and no wish to influence your deliberations," said Kirchschläger, "but we hope and we wish and we trust from the bottom of our hearts that the meeting . . . will contribute toward the further process of détente and toward a reduction of armaments." Carter went directly to the American ambassador's residence, a three-story mansion that was built in the early 1930s for Coal Baron Karl Broda...