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Move over, Zeffirelli. For a $10 million staging of Verdi's Aida this month, Egyptian-born Impresario Fawzi Mitwali rejected sets for the real thing: the Temple of Luxor on the site of ancient Thebes. Besides Tenor Placido Domingo, opening night featured the 525-member Arena di Verona Opera Company, 180 Egyptian soldiers and 200 extras tramping down the Avenue of the Sphinxes...
...Aida K. Press, director of public information at Radcliffe, says that students do not have to seek out what is available. "Just because one doesn't go to the art museum regularly doesn't mean that it's less of a community or that the art museum is at fault," says the editor of the Radcliffe Quarterly. The many opportunities that Harvard and Boston offer make it impossible for every Radcliffe student to become involved with the community...
Tickets for Turandot being harder to come by than those for Les Miserables, most fans must wait for the TV broadcast next season. As for Zeffirelli, he tackles Aida in 1988-89. An anxious opera world awaits the reconstruction of the pyramids...
...almost from the moment he arrived at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1908, reports Horowitz, Toscanini was a celebrity. The story of his professional debut -- rising from the cello section to lead Verdi's Aida from memory in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 19 -- had preceded him, and the New York music critics provided a collective embrace. "As great and as welcome as anything that has come out of Italy since Verdi laid down his pen," proclaimed the New York Tribune in a typical response...
...tune, Aida Lottapasta's "I'm Hungry in More Ways Than One," is downright gross. You could see members of the audience grimacing at each horrible line of the all-too-explicit song...