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Beloved of musicians, Pelleas has long been a challenge for audiences. There are no conventional arias or ensembles, and the tenebrous music never fully breaks into song. Like Maeterlinck's poetry, the music is allusive rather than specific. Accordingly, most Pelleas productions take place in twilight or the dark; Sellars...
Richie Arias is a societal malignancy, a weak, charming, tirelessly manipulative man who inspires thoughts of therapeutic homicide in almost everyone who knows him. We met him a couple of years ago in Richard North Patterson's crisp courtroom drama, Degree of Guilt. There he was a minor character, the...
To vary Marx's formulation slightly, history repeats itself -- the first time as an enchanting evening of song, the second time as an example of extreme bad taste and lazy greed. What was wonderful in Rome in 1990 was awful in L.A. as Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras...
The atmosphere of cultural confusion was palpable one recent night at the party to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Paper, the magazine of culture formation among the seriously hip. A good many of the names that show up in clubland gossip columns -- Veronica Webb, the model! Joey Arias, the drag...
In keeping with its historical emphasis, "Chaste, Chased, and Chastened" also includes a number of related programs, most interestingly a concert of music associated with the Old Testment, including the Biblical sonatas of Kuhnan and arias of Handel on Oct. 3.