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...today the Tigers will give winning a try against Cornell, which is down after seeing its effort to stop Dartmouth turn to disaster in the fourth quarter. Besides, Ed's been up late this week completing his paper on "The Relative Merits of Bell Hops at the Essex and Stop-Here Hotels on the East Side of Ithaca" for Ho Admin 175b. Princeton...
...same tale of jealousy, love betrayed and suffering as Hollywood's 1939 heartthrobber The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, the new Devereux was even more of a showpiece for Beverly Sills than the film was for Bette Davis. Absent from the New York stage for more than a century, the opera was revived especially for Sills by the company's director, Julius Rudel. He conducted it adoringly and surrounded his prima diva with an all-star cast headed by Mezzo Beverly Wolff, Baritone Louis Quilico and, of course, Domingo. Amply returning the favor, Sills proved again that...
...King Gustav III of Sweden who tries to woo Montserrat Caballe away from her husband in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera. On Thursday, across the plaza at the New York City Opera, where Domingo broke into the big time four years ago, he played the Earl of Essex to Beverly Sills' Queen Elizabeth in a splendid new production of Donizetti's Roberto Devereux. Like any operatic tenor, Domingo does a lot of theatrical dying. "When you are dying," he says with a wink, "you have more chance to suffer, and the public likes suffering...
...Essex any opera director might be tempted to swap his Ring cycle for. Bending to one knee in supplication, baring his chest with soldierly bravado, singing with graceful, silvery mastery, Domingo made their touching Act I duet a true meeting of romantic equals...
...fiddled with the dials on his short-wave set in Essex last week, a young British ham radio operator heard a familiar call signal from a Middle East station. "This is JY-one," the deep, British-accented voice could be heard over the crackle of the static. "Hussein on the mike." With that, the beleaguered King of Jordan proceeded to discuss the situation outside his well-fortified Al-Hummar Palace on the outskirts of Amman. "We get a bit of blasting here," said Hussein. "It is a sad time. But we are putting our house in order and soon...