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...visit to his alma mater, Cornell University, Beijing was irate. Hard-liners and moderates in the leadership may disagree on any number of questions, but they are of one mind when it comes to sovereignty over Taiwan; there is no room for compromise. "No leader in Beijing," says Ralph Cossa, executive director of Pacific Forum CSIS, a Honolulu think tank, "could survive if he lost Taiwan." Beijing's current missile diplomacy backs up earlier warnings by President Jiang that Taiwan must stick to the one-China policy and that a declaration of independence means...
That is about all that can be said for this work, which was commissioned and introduced by the Opera Company of Philadelphia last week, with the composer staging the work and taking a walk-on role. The hero in question, David Murphy (Baritone Dominic Cossa), has been asleep in the four-poster for ten years. His self-centered wife Mildred (Mezzo Diane Curry) has long since removed the mis from her misfortune by putting David on public display. She has even installed a tape recorder to immortalize his every snore. The drama comes to life, so to speak, when David...
Last week at the New York City Opera, it was Beverly Sills' turn. She had a bad cold. Charles Wilson's conducting only occasionally rose to something that resembled authority. Nothing seemed able to shock Tenor Michele Molese and Baritone Dominic Cossa into dramatic vitality. Nevertheless, under the direction of Tito Capobianca, the whole production drew a mounting, cohesive strength from Sills...
...world events. Leaning toward a group of pushbuttons, he avoided a big red button, pushed a black one. which almost immediately brought an assistant to his side. After a quick, untranslated conversation in Russian, the assistant left, and came back a few minutes later with a biography of Baldassare Cossa, a successful pirate who became Pope John XXIII...
...London three years ago, a drawing that was labeled only "School of Francesco Cossa" brought $23,520. The same year a tiny Bellini showing Christ at the column went for $44,100. Last week at Sotheby's, a delicate little drawing of a wispy young woman by the 15th century Flemish Painter Hugo van der Goes made twice as much news. It was a study the master had made for a painting, possibly of St. Barbara. The painting has been lost; the study survived to fetch...