Winthrop Sargeant

PROFILE of the opera singer Teresa Stratas. A lyric soprano, Miss Stratas's versatility as both singer and actress makes her, in her early forties, one…

PROFILE of 49-yr.-old John Crosby, founder & General Director of the Santa Fe Opera, which every summer presents the most sophisticated opera in America. …

PROFILE of Georg Solti, 61, who has been chief conductor of the Chicago Symphony since 1969. In 1970, Solti & the Chicagoans suddenly became known as the …

PROFILE of Sarah Caldwell, 45, perhaps the finest operatic stage director in America, who presides over the Opera Company of Boston. This is one of the few…

PROFILE of Marilyn Horne, the opera singer considered by many to possess the greatest voice in the world. Miss Horne, who is 38, may be regarded as being …

PROFILE of Giuseppe Cipriani, of Venice, honored by the Italian gov't. for his contribution to tourism. He manages the city's most fashionable …

PROFILE of Metropolitan Opera star Joan Sutherland. Miss Sutherland sings bel-canto opera, which had been revived two decades ago by the famous (soprano …

PROFILE of Beverly Sills, lyric coloratura, and America's most famous opera singer. She was born Belle Silverman in Brooklyn, in 1929. Tells how much …

PROFILE o f Giovanni Mardersteig, the world renewed publisher of hand printed books, who runs the Officina Bodoni and Stamperia Valdonega publishing houses…

Winthrop Sargeant on the beloved young conductor of the Metropolitan Opera. At thirty-one, he has already mastered Western classical music—and flummoxed the generations who thought a Bombay native could never do so.

PROFILE of Enzo Ferrari, maker of Ferrari autos at a factory, near Modena, Italy. The Ferrari is regarded as something special - its whole physiognomy …

PROFILE of William Francis Gibbs, naval architect & head of Gibbs & Cox, the largest private ship-designing firm in the world. It is reported to have …

PROFILE of the Italian-born operatic composer Gian Carlo Menotti whose operas are well known to a large section of the international public. "The Consul," …

PROFILE of Mme. Rosina Lhevinne, pianist, teacher, and wife of the late Josef Lhevinne. Mme. Lhevinne is almost solely responsible for Cliburn's …

PROFILE of Julius Rudel, conductor of N. Y. City Opera, speaks of the artistic idealism and loyalty that makes the N.Y. City opera something quite …

PROFILE of the famous Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan. Like Rudolf Bing, he is dead set against opera singers who are not physicallybeautiful, …

PROFILE of Count Guido Chigi Saracini, Siena's first citizen and its patron of music. From mid-July until mid-September an unparalleled course of music…

PROFILE of Edward D. Stone, a prominent figure inwhat architectural critics are beginning to refer to as "the new romanticism." His American Pavilion at …

Winthrop Sargeant on the photographer who changed the way we understand fashion, glamour, and femininity.

PROFILE of Dr. Suzuki, the world's leading authority on Zen Buddhism. Dr. S., who lectures at Columbia, is neither a monk nor a practicing Zen master, …

PROFILE of Vittorio De Sica, actor, director, and producer. Ever since 1939, when De Sica directed his first picture, De Sica, roaming the haunts of humble…

PROFILE of Vittorio De Sica, the Italian actor, director, & producer, tells about his dealings with Hollywood producers, among them Selznick. His initial …

PROFILE of Marianne Moore. In 1926, Miss Moore became editor-in-chief of the Dial, a magazine concerned purely with the arts of writing, painting and …

PROFILE of Jean Rosenthal, stage lighting expert, whose artistry has been seen in productions of the N.Y.C. Ballet, in those of the N. Y. C. Opera; in …

PROFILE of Yehudi Menuhin tells about Menuhin's staunch defense of the late. German conductor Furtwangler who was being widely criticized for having …