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Although Detroit officials honored each participant with a key to the city--usually reserved for "special visitors" according to one mayorial aid--city officials do not plan to make a contribution or other kind of reparation for the stolen goods, Detroit City hall spokesman Robert Berg said...
...such as La Traviata, Tosca and Die Meistersinger. But an opera house must also be active in reviving worthy pieces and commissioning new ones. Under Levine's artistic administration, the Met has successfully explored new territory in such operas as Poulenc's fervid Dialogues of the Carmelites, Berg's thorny Lulu, Kurt Weill's sardonic Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and the ebullient French triple bill Parade. In standard works, such as Verdi's Don Carlo and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, the company has used the latest scholarship to offer versions...
Lewis E. Wai berg Haverh II, Mass...
...have lived long enough to luxuriate in their own revival. The acknowledged master of art deco in the 1920s and '30s, he created exuberantly fanciful costumes in his Paris studio for Anna Pavlova, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst and Josephine Baker. The sets he designed for the Folies-Bergère and the Ziegfeld Follies were backdrops for the extravagances of the age. In the postwar era, however, Erté's conceits were often dismissed as high camp or low kitsch. Undeterred, he kept on painting the Erté woman, who is the focus of most of his grand...
What else lies in store? Berg's Wozzeck, perhaps. A demanding performer who turned down a request by Herbert von Karajan to sing Beckmesser because he disagreed with Karajan's concept, Prey is currently mulling a couple of offers to sing the foremost 20th century antihero. He plans to ignore the tradition of croaking and barking the role that has evolved since the challenging opera's premiere in 1925. "Berg wanted a beautiful voice," says Prey. "I want to sing every note as it is written...