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More than 4,000 of the glitterati paid up to $600 a ticket. But the echoing acoustics proved atrocious ("double Domingo," cracked one listener). Just 14,000 tickets were sold for the other nine performances (the tenor sang only the premiere), leaving Mitwali in debt. The extravaganza was staged over the initial objections of Muslim fundamentalists and Egyptian antiquities officials, who feared the vibrations and crowds might damage the monuments. Still, Domingo says he hopes to return some day to sing Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila. Now that will put the ruins to the test...
...well-dressed crowd of 700, representing much of California's Democratic establishment, waited expectantly after a sellout dinner in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. At the front tables were such glitterati as Actress Jane Fonda and her husband Assemblyman Tom Hayden, former California Governor Pat Brown and Film Producer Irwin Winkler. But as New York Governor Mario Cuomo prepared to deliver his speech, an oyster shucker working nearby was puzzled by all the hoopla. "What's the deal?" he asked. "Is he running for something...
HANNAH AND HER SISTERS Sketching on his broadest canvas, Woody Allen creates a rendering of comic heartbreak and rebirth among Manhattan's tarnished glitterati...
Conceived, at his request, as a starring vehicle for Spanish-born Supertenor Placido Domingo, Goya was given a handsome $1.1 million production by the Washington Opera before an opening-night audience in the Kennedy Center that included Queen Sophia of Spain and glitterati from two continents. It is being broadcast nationally this week on PBS. So far, so laudable...
That party was held on Bernstein's own turf in a Park Avenue duplex. Tuxedoes would have been oh-so-formal for this crowd. Italian designers had the day. The party was a union between the glitterati and radical politics, a marriage of convenience that for a brief moment made urban revolutionaries the darlings of Manhattan society...