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...Wagnerian roles that were once owned by Lauritz Melchior. No operatic appearances in 1998 were as eagerly awaited as Heppner's Lohengrin at the Met and Tristan und Isolde at the Seattle Opera, and the critical verdict was passionately positive. Small wonder: the Wagner excerpts included on his latest CD, Ben Heppner Sings German Romantic Opera (RCA Victor Red Seal), are by turns warmly lyrical and resplendently powerful...
...double bill with his mentor, Domingo (Cura stars in Cavalleria Rusticana, Domingo in Pagliacci). But even though Cura and Alvarez definitely have the potential to make it big, neither is quite ready to fill the king-size shoes of the Old Guard. Bel Canto (Sony Classical), Alvarez's first CD, is promising but not yet the work of a mature artist, while Cura can be heard in Puccini: Arias (Erato), a handsomely sung recital conducted by Domingo that reveals Cura's blind spot: his high-octane voice is oddly charmless...
Chauvinistic English critics are calling Thomas Ades, 28, the hottest composer since Benjamin Britten. Don't believe the hype. Ades' first opera, just released on CD, is a thoroughly nasty piece of goods. Philip Hensher's sneering libretto tells the scabrous story of the decline and fall of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll (the "Mrs. Sweeny" of Cole Porter's You're the Top), who liked to do the Full Monica on her male servants. Ades' score is a glib farrago of sour, splintered vocal writing, postmodern pastiche and cartoony sound effects. Is this the music of the future? No, just...
...HOLE Celebrity Skin (DGC) Much has been made of bandleader/provocateur Courtney Love's musical makeover. Her group's previous albums were raw and ragged, but this latest release is shiny and sometimes slick. Still, bleached hair has dark roots: beneath the polite production, this CD boasts galvanizing moments of rude, undeniable beauty...
They wish. Stung by the seismic popularity of a standard known as MP3, the recording industry has been fighting back. But they're hardly in time. Scores of pirate MP3 sites have sprung up online where anyone can download near-CD quality music for free. MP3s are so popular that Diamond Multimedia, a consumer electronics company popular for its video cards, began selling a $199 Walkman-like player, the Rio, that plays the Net tunes. The Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit against the company, attempting to immediately prevent it from selling the device, but a judge...