Word: galas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rudenstine, who took office on July 1 and will be formally inaugurated in a gala celebration next month, delivered an informal and anecdotal speech, dotted with literary allusions that betrayed his background as a former English professor...
...view television duels could resist such an event? In this corner, the operatic heavyweight from Modena, Italy, Luciano Pavarotti! And in this corner, that Iberian emoter, champeen tenor Placido Domingo! The kings of the high Cs will head a list of stars on Sept. 23, when a 25th-anniversary gala at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City is broadcast in a way usually associated with professional punch-'em-ups: live pay-per-view television...
...price tag for the home viewer will be as elevated as the entertainment -- a glass-shattering $34.95. Presenters Cablevision, NBC Cable and Polygram are obviously hoping that the success of pay-per-view pugilism will be duplicated among opera lovers. The gala is described as "the first in a long- term agreement" with the Met, which currently presents free PBS opera broadcasts...
...social class customs and conflicts in this Hartford Stage mounting (also to appear at San Diego's Old Globe) of a new play with music and dance adapted from his poignant novel. It shows the seductive folly of revisiting past pleasures -- for a generation that revives its youthful midwinter gala and for a pair of former partners, perfect on the dance floor but not off, reunited in a last bittersweet waltz...
...gala dates back to 1955, when the women staged a Mardi Gras costume ball, presided over by a king and queen. By the mid-'60s, it had evolved into an annual one-night minstrel show. Each successive year has brought more talent and bigger audiences. But it wasn't until Cione took over as director in 1988 that the event was catapulted from an in-house variety show to a professional-quality production...