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Angelika Kirchschlager is not your usual opera star. An unruly mop of ringlets frames her impish features. Her soft voice breaks into a surprisingly boisterous laugh. She radiates an easy warmth, sports a leather jacket, chews gum and likes her cigarettes and wine - though they don't seem to cloud the celestial clarity of her voice. If Kirchschlager is the anti-diva, that makes her the perfect choice to star in Sophie's Choice, the new opera based on William Styron's best-selling 1979 novel. Because Sophie's Choice, which opened earlier this month at the Royal Opera House...
...been faithful to the text, but wondered whether his onscreen antics didn't pale beside Benigni's own adventures last week, which were classic Collodi. Benigni used to be applauded as a scourge of the Italian establishment, but many of his fans are now starting to wonder whether the impish director isn't forgetting out of what wood he was carved. Once an arch tormentor of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi - who has ofttimes been satirized with a nose of Pinocchian proportions - Benigni now says that whatever his failings as a statesman, Berlusconi is "a bloody good businessman." Could this have...
...been faithful to the text, but wondered whether his onscreen antics didn't pale beside Benigni's own adventures last week, which were classic Collodi. Benigni used to be applauded as a scourge of the Italian establishment, but many of his fans are now starting to wonder whether the impish director isn't forgetting out of what wood he was carved. Once an arch tormentor of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi - who has ofttimes been satirized with a nose of Pinocchian proportions - Benigni now says that whatever his failings as a statesman, Berlusconi is "a bloody good businessman." Could this have...
...broad learning and boundless intellectual curiosity, of impeccable integrity, of impish wit and gently clever pen,” said Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth Studley Nathans...
...display focused on children, and these ring with the greatest honesty perhaps because the subjects seem completely unaware of the camera’s gaze. In one striking scene, several grade schoolers labor to push a hamper up a dirtied urban avenue. Despite the squalor of the surroundings, their impish smiles and doubled-over laughter show that the activity is more of a game than a chore. In a careful composition, the children’s clothes pick up colors in the graffiti and painted residences in the background, suggesting a unity with their surroundings and an ability to revel...