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...Jean-Marie Lustiger, 56, who was appointed Archbishop of Paris by John Paul in 1981, is the first Jewish convert to join the College of Cardinals in modern times. The other French appointee to the college is not a bishop but a Jesuit priest: Theologian Henri de Lubac, 86, who was suspended from teaching under Pope Pius XII because of his then radical views on such subjects as other religions and atheism but who emerged as an influential force at the Second Vatican Council. Italian Jesuit Carlo Maria Martini, a brilliant Bible scholar named Archbishop of Milan...
...this season there have been two new productions: a grandly ceremonial staging of Mozart's Idomeneo by Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, and a controversial setting of Macbeth by Sir Peter Hall. The Met cast Idomeneo as few houses can, with Pavarotti, Mezzo Frederica von Stade and Sopranos Hildegarde Behrens and lleana Cotrubas. All had voices big, agile and beautiful enough to handle the opera's extraordinary demands, and the result was a triumph...
...Bliss to discuss a choreographer for next season's opening production of Berlioz's Les Troyens; already three have declined. Assistant Manager Joan Ingpen, who is in charge of artistic administration, pops in to have Levine approve a "cover" for a sick tenor and to vet Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's request to adjust his rehearsal schedule next season. "Once we counted 40,000 castings arranged over a five-year period," says Levine. "It is a jigsaw puzzle beyond belief." He signs letters and heads into the auditorium for an 11 a.m. rehearsal of Wagner...
...Flambeur. Trench coats, neon lights, rain-washed streets. And a man of honor in a world of thieves. French Writer-Director Jean-Pierre Melville's drama of a gambler down on his luck took 27 years to arrive in the U.S.; it is a classic example of the dark, doom-dripping genre known as film noir...
Roses In December (PBS). A taut documentary by Ana Carrigan and Bernard Stone about the killing of Jean Donovan, a lay missionary who worked with the Maryknoll nuns in El Salvador. An exemplary piece of humane film making that avoided political sentimentality and glib answers...