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Judging by Zambello's history, that isn't a bad prediction. Six years ago, she staged Donizetti's popular Lucia di Lammermoor for New York City's Metropolitan Opera, and her vision of madness and death--the stage was strewn with coffins--drew catcalls from tuxedoed first-nighters expecting something considerably more romantic. In her version of Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride, presented last fall by the New York City Opera, the two principal male characters were stripped down to skimpy loincloths and chained together, to underline what Zambello believes to be the opera's homosexual subtext. "Cesca...
...many fountains there were, I said. I didn't want to dismantle a fountain if we had only one more fountain than Rome. I didn't want to lose the edge. I didn't want to arrive in Rome some day and find a sign saying, "Piu fontane di Kansas City...
...RETURN OF...DI-PLOITATION WATCH...
...almost harmonic convergence: a Di-Ploitation Watch item that's also a Feud of the Week! Last Monday Princess Diana's estate and memorial fund filed suit against the Franklin Mint, which began selling porcelain dolls, plates, pennants and rings within days of Di's death. The suit claims that the Mint was denied permission to produce these keepsakes and that despite claims of giving all the proceeds to the Diana, Princess of Wales' Charities, it has "never donated a penny to the fund." On Friday the Mint retorted in a press release, saying, "This lawsuit must be a mistake...
...five candidates for co-chair are Adam A. Sofen '01, Joe Di Pasquale '00, Nikki L. Deblosi '99, David A. Campbell '00 and Chloe J. Lopez...