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The Lincoln Commnnitv Concerts Assoc. is
featuring soprano Roberta Peters Thursday at 8
p.m.
By Vol McPhcrson
F.ivch year- the Lincoln Community
Concerts Assoc. sponsors visits by sevorol
internationally known porfurmers. Tonight
,tt Ppishing it wilt piesent soprano Roberta
Peters.
A native of te Bt-hx, Ne Ycik. Pvtots
bt-riuP '0iC: ?tuc!y i'i New York City :u gc
13 ijndor te.rcher Wiilicm. H-'tiru-nii. She also
n(d private turorint) in ha'lt.t, drnrtifitirs ar-d
Sf'Vi' r n I kincjuijoes.
impresario So1 Huruk hoard her one dny
in In-r teacher's studio and itTi'tit.-diutely put
her under contract, although she had neve
appeal c-d proff ssionally.
Hor Metropolitan Ciera audition result"d
in a oebut as I he Queen of the Mifjht in
Moatt's 7)? Magc f'-lufj. Two months after
her audi lion she was a:.krd on a few hours
notice to sifiq i'edina m -.'? Giovanni. Tttis
performanco thru-.t I'M ieto ih.; .pot!igl)i of
the onr-ra woi id
Since that debut in 1950, Peters has
appeared in 37 rois at the Metropolitan
Opera. Although usually asoci jtod with the
fjieat classical and romantic heroineti of
Women
absent
new
from
movies
What is happenma to women in the
movie'; '
Never, it see!i h.iv men dominated
the seieen more than in the past months.
In a time when rrvie cops are hdvina a
b'oodfe'it, eon nva are screwiiu The
system, and seagulls v" wingi'uj their vv.jy
tu fame, nedriy ail tii.n dCtrnsses and
stail (.Ik liave mn m-k.A'i! intu he back
seat.
Earlier, everyone was heaping piaise
on latum O'Neal's portray, il n '.'.,""
Moon, even suc.cjestMi'j thet she shoukl get
an Oscar for her bad mouthing, if we
wero only half joking .it ihe time, it now
appears that she could win by default.
One is hard pr.';,..il t,i com,' up wth
even a handful of nvmoiatjie women's
roll's -this year-liv UMn..inn in Thf Vew
Lund, KaMiarir.e Hepburn in A o!icate
Bal.mcc and Glenua Jackson in A Tooth
of Cfasz
talented tares of Cyl.nl! Shepard, Diana
Ror.5. AM MacGt aw, Kafherino Rous and
evei! .Jane Fonda? A-1 nt re rising stars,
bui '.I'i" pa.U moi'ihs I'.avn been wi thout
them., as w-e'i js any .e.w, promi: mc
fumale face;
(,'on'inn tiu's to the emergence o!
young sffiis like Rcben De Niro, Keith
Qu i adint. and Michel Monarw. and thf
blossoming of others like Al '"ieino,
T.nicihy' Bottoms and Jeff Budges,.
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Nine ye at -old hiKun ha? had -non.,
publicity during ihf vy,. year than
anyone exenm i'-wo J rest's imria
Lovelace.
Whatever happened to the hcauti ml,
V.... Sr..
Ulimarut wai in-', only consistently,
recogmed actress of the ast year,
earning descivnd American frtine as the
Lx?sf Swedish mioort ince Greta Gat bo. It
is too bad 'met her American movies
(Lor.t lionon. 40 Canti) were bombs,
':ocnpircci with iter vuece ssUd foitign
fiiniS) (Ciics unci Whi:;p"is. Top Now
i.;mdi.
opera, she created th5 leading role in
Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Last Savage.
She has performed for international
audiences al the Royal Opera House, the
Vienna State Opera and at Moscow's
Bolshoi. in Russia she received a 15 minute
standing ovation nnri in May 1972, was
awarded the Bolshoi Meaai. She is the first
American-born artist to receive this awaid.
Besides her national and international
tours, Peters lias performed on television and
has recorded many complete operas. In 1968
her first book ano9ared entitled Debut at tfie
Met.
Pete rs rectttitly starred in the Musical The
Kino and I in St. Louis and later repeated
that role at the Wolf Trap Center. Of that
pei formance, the Washington Pose wrote
that her recreation of the ro'o "makes one
almost forget Gertrude Lovveuce's original".
Lincoln Community Concerts are open
only to the season ticket holders. Tickets
can tie purchased each spring for $10.50 and
are good for five concerts. Students can
purchase season tickets at half price.
BarPra Strr.;sand had the only other
it:al rif, 77;'? roy iVo Were.
Mot that actress'-s are failing to do the
;cb, the rols just reen't there. Movies are
in chaotic limes and producers are
remembering tne audioiKe. Films aie
o;ore entcftaining than srvious. That
entei toihrnerp of ion ccmcs in violent
f.Ims, mostly cop movies, and these often
leave women cm..
Whether feminists liked it or not,
many of the most ponuiar actresses were
ixx stars, and tocenr pornography ruiings
have tamed film jex considerably.
Since a love or hate relationship is
usually important to good cnUt tain meat,
writers and directors almost all men
themselves) are making them between
men.
Examples include Pan! Newman and
Robert Radloid in The itivj. and Dustin
Hoi f man and Sieva McQueen in Papillon.
Pei haps i is only a passing phase.
Regardless of whether it should be like
this or not, 'he cm rent movie scene is
definitely a ram's world.
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