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...BOTTOM LINE: The ghosts of Poe and Bram Stoker breathe new life into an old bel canto war-horse...
...Shining Path guerrillas have controlled two cellblocks in Peru's Canto Grande prison for nearly six years. Last week police blew a hole in the cellblock roof, then used tear gas to flush rebels out; at least two policemen and 11 guerrillas were killed. President Alberto Fujimori decreed mandatory 25- to 30-year jail sentences for anyone convicted of involvement in rebel assassination squads...
...voice is a lyric soprano with an unusual coloratura, capable of unearthly runs, trills and ornaments, but with a bigger, lusher sound than most. Anderson commands the bel canto repertory, whose heroines tend to be, as she puts it, "girls who are sad, mad or dead." She herself is a larger-than- life heroine with a bravura temperament to match her voice. If critics see her as a young Joan Sutherland, opera fans compare her with Maria Callas. Like la Callas, Anderson stirs things...
Soprano June Anderson, opera's newest diva, evokes comparisons to Maria Callas -- for her command of bel canto as well as her tendency to stir things...
With 70 albums and 40 years in the business behind her, Cruz, seventyish, handsome, dark-skinned and wearing a snug, sequined fuchsia gown, gyrates for 90 minutes to the insistent beat of her razor-sharp backup band. At the refrain of her old favorite Canto a la Habana (Song to Havana) -- "Cuba que lindos son tus paisajes" (Cuba, what beautiful vistas you have) -- the bilingual crowd goes wild, even though most of those present have never seen Cuba and have little prospect of ever doing so. "We've never had to attract these kids. They come by themselves," says Cruz...