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Several major singers, among them Mirella Freni, Joan Sutherland, Von Stade and Alfredo Kraus, are too rarely heard at the Met, although all four are appearing this season. And British Soprano Margaret Price, who sings in the major international houses, has never sung there. Somewhat ingenuously, Levine blames their absence partly on the Met's distance from Europe. Even in the Concorde age, he contends, they prefer to work closer to home, no more than a couple of hours' flight from Covent Garden, the Paris Opéra or Milan's La Scala, rather than take...
...again: while they have always embraced their adopted land as home, they have tended to ward off melting into the new place by re-creating elements of the homes left behind. Result: ethnic neighborhoods as well as poignant sentiments like that of the Hungarian immigrant song recorded by Michael Kraus in Immigration, the American Mosaic: "We yearn to return to our little village Where every blade of grass understood Hungarian." Home, it seems, can also be divided, which is probably essential for a species whose fundamental dilemma can be described as simultaneous needs for mobility and a sense of home...
...Republicans or Independents are on the November ballot, so the Democratic nomination assures Kraus the Senate seat...
...Kraus first entered the race last January, and was widely considered a long shot at the outset. Lyons, an Arlington flower distributor, who ran for the seat four years ago, had the highest name recognition and was considered the favorite. But the Harvard admissions officer soon established himself as the most progressive candidate in the crowded field, and won the backing of conservative organizations praising him for "honesty and integrity...
...Kraus has said he wants to be "a several-term senator" but has also insisted that he wants to stay at Harvard...