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...material. But she was born with more than that. Her dark good looks project grandly across the footlights: a mane of lustrous hair, huge brown eyes, a generous mouth and milky shoulders that enhance a decolletage. She also has temperamental stability and a ready sense of humor. Says conductor James Levine, artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera: "She has extraordinary self-perception, without the narcissism and the rest of the baloney." She will need her level-headedness as her international career, already robust, continues to expand. Everyone wants Bartoli...
Another listener was the late Herbert von Karajan, who asked her to sing some Bach at the Salzburg Easter Festival. The conductor died before the performances, but she treasures the experience of rehearsing with him. "Bach was another world to me," she says. "At the beginning I was always in a rush. Karajan taught me to take the tempo tranquilly, to take a breath. This is something I use for everything." To those names, add Sir Georg Solti, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Chailly -- a stellar fan club...
...superb. The sheer number of minor characters and the indistinguishability of their names does not prevent certain actors from achieving distinction: particularly wonderful were Candy Buckley as the secretary Polixena Vasilievna Toropetskaya, Margaret Gibson as the cat-hurling actress Lyudmila Silvestrovna Priakina and Jeremy Geidt as Romanus, the conductor at the Independent Theatre. Derek Smith is not a very dynamic Maksudov; although he expresses his suicidal desperation nicely, his creative anxieties and joys are only sketchily delineated. Alvin Epstein as Ivan Vasilyevich, the director of the Independent Theatre conspicuously modeled on Stanislavsky, is eminently believable in the imperiousness...
...professional at Harvard," says Benjamin. "At the A.R.T., you come out feeling that you have all these wonderful facilities, but you need permission to use them. [Working under the A.R.T ] is like being in day care." In fact, the annual Pudding show has a professional director, choreographer, music director, conductor and costume designer--and a professional handles the props as well...
...There has been angst over the general lameness of the student body," student conductor John A. E. Pottow '93 said. "This is an attempt to revitalize student spirit...