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What may have most roused the normally comatose Met audience was the production's feminist subtext. This Lucia is less a helpless damsel in distress than a strong, sexual woman who chooses death before dishonor -- Elektra's first cousin. Although she had some vocal difficulties on opening night (Donizetti's high notes are best not delivered while the soprano is on her knees or flat on her back), reigning bel canto diva June Anderson's forceful stage presence ensures that the heroine gives as good as she gets. Other notables include a promising American tenor, Richard Leech, as Lucia...
Isabella Stewart Gardner was a friend and patron of John Singer Sargent. She went to Spain in 1888, and it fascinated her--she said of the country: "Here one feels existence." She soon began collecting the artwork that now adorns the Spanish Cloister of the Museum. Her cousin gave her "El Jaleo," the focal point of this area. Later, Sargent presented his patron with the sketches for this painting...
...three, Knighton, the youngest of six children, shuttled among various relatives in Georgia and Florida. By the time he was 15, he had moved 30 times. "It seemed like nobody cared about me," he says, "so I guessed I had to do for myself." Joyce Moore, 27, a cousin who lives in Delray Beach, Florida, recalls that "people would say he could come live with them, but he better not ask for no clothes or money or nothing, 'cause they weren't gonna give it." Why should it come as a surprise, psychologists ask, that children thus passed around have...
Coolidge Corner Theatre. 390 Harvard St., Brookline. 734-2500. Through Thursday, Oct. 22. Feed, a Presidential comedy at 4:35 and 7:55 p.m. Bill Plympton's The Tune at 7:40 p.m. Susan Sarandon in Light Sleeper at 4 and 9:25 p.m. Jonathan Demme's Cousin Bobby at 6:15 p.m. The Panama Deception at 6:05 p.m. Deep Blues...
...came the faux noir of Porgy and Bess, which is really a Russian grand opera in blackface (the choral scenes are closer to Rimsky-Korsakov or Mussorgsky than they are to anything Catfish Row ever heard). With a fierce, angry and brilliant libretto by Thulani Davis, the composer's cousin, X is at once a musical entertainment, a folk epic, a cautionary tale and a cri de coeur...