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...Sills moves from misery to compassion (for her successor Jane Seymour), and then on to resolute acceptance of her fate, is a memorable lesson in the essential operatic art of building toward the big moment. Though not actually shown, the execution by ax is marvelously anticipated by Sills' clutching at her neck at the final curtain. As Henry, Baritone Robert Hale, 40, is a believably gruff, gout-ridden and girl-crazy monarch, dominating the stage in a way that disguises the fact that he does not have one solo aria...
...prosperity, obsessed by its own comforts. It is difficult, however, to credit such subtleties to a director whose idea of a good visual pun is a man holding a turkey between his legs while a woman cuts the squealing bird's head off with an ax. Ferreri's other sight gags include a couple rutting around in pastry batter and a toilet exploding, inundating everyone in the vicinity with excrement. Much is alien to a sensibility like that, although little is beneath...
Guinier had previously notified Nwafor that his appointment would not be renewed next year and said Nwafor "has his own ax to grind...
...largely confines herself to concert appearances and to teaching at the Cleveland Institute, Juilliard and the New England Conservatory. But for the American première of Benjamin Britten's opera Owen Wingrave, in Santa Fe, N. Mex., the soprano sang the role of the old battle-ax aunt to Alan Titus' young Owen. Letting out all the stops, Steber, done up in Victorian rig, calls her nephew a coward for not following in the family's military tradition. How did it feel to play the heavy for a change? "A character part like this...
...budget proposals are approved, the ax will fall on a wide range of medical institutions and programs. Two years ago, for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, which supports a variety of projects in the field of genetics, had a budget of $28.3 million for new research grants; next year it will get $5,000,000. General research support grants, administered by the National Institutes of Health's Division of Research Resources, have been cut from $55.2 million to $17 million. Research fellowships and training grants, essential to the training of medical researchers and instructors, are being...