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...hard to find--it airs at odd hours, mostly on PBS or public access cable channels--but the search yields a feast. Opera, dance, chamber music, theater and more are presented in a beguiling spread of video clips. So surf that dial, comb that TV Guide. Caruso and Domingo, Lillian Gish and Paul Robeson, the Canadian Brass and James Galway all await...
Pavarotti, 63, celebrated the 30th anniversary of his Met debut last month with a gala performance that showed him to be physically unsteady (he underwent hip- and knee-replacement surgery earlier this year) and vocally worn. As for Domingo, 57, who celebrated his 30th year at the Met in September, his exit strategy has never been a secret: he is gradually kicking himself upstairs. Already in charge of the Washington Opera, he will also be taking over as artistic director and co-manager of the L.A. Opera...
...first two tenors, but so far they have had about as much luck as Joan Rivers had in giving Johnny Carson the push. Roberto Alagna, 34, was heavily promoted by EMI as "the tenor of our generation" (a not so subtle dig at the advanced ages of Pavarotti and Domingo), but he had a rocky Met debut three seasons ago and is looking increasingly like an also-ran. Andrea Bocelli, 40, the hugely popular blind Italian tenor, is unlikely to parlay the success of his best-selling CDs into a serious stage career; aside from the practical problems caused...
...debut last month in Franco Zeffirelli's bloated new production of La Traviata, in which his engaging singing was overshadowed by the spectacularly vivid Violetta of Patricia Racette. Cura's turn comes with next season's opening night, when he will be sharing a 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...
...possible, of course, that the next really big male opera singer may not be a tenor. Ask Joseph Volpe, the Met's general manager, what he is planning to do when Pavarotti and Domingo are no longer available to open the season, and the first name he mentions is that of Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel. "At some point," he confides, "we're going to open with a Don Giovanni starring Bryn." No, Terfel can't sing a high C, but Volpe is betting that won't matter. "Bryn's the one who has all of the goods," he says...