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...Directions. The Hamburg Opera's distinctive approach, which Germans call "realistic musical theater," is not often seen in America. Instead of featuring barnstorming stars with showy voices, the company uses lesser-known but accomplished singers (many of them American) who stay with the company throughout the ten-month season and blend smoothly into the overall musical texture. Instead of garnishing glorious music with pageantry and posturing, Hamburg produces cohesive, hard-hitting dramatic performances, in which the text is as important as the score. And instead of sticking with proven but sometimes flyblown versions of operatic warhorses, it mounts eight...
Freer Format. Lesser-known prospects get screened at pre-interview sessions. Comedienne Joan Rivers was rejected six times before she was considered ready; she has been on 18 times since. After the talent is selected, Tonight staffers rough out a crib sheet for Carson, proposing possible lines of questioning and the guest's likely answers. Carson rarely talks to the guests beforehand, lest "they leave their fight in the gymnasium...
...Betti's play is just as much of a sleeper as the production. One of the lesser-known worlds of a lesser-known playwright, Goat Island is a full-grown tragedy about a woman's search for moral certainty. Unlike other Betti plays, it manages not to get obsessed with the question of justice for its own sake. Betti was both a lawyer and a judge, but in Goat Island he uses the legal metaphor only as a structural device, a means of pushing the play's heroine toward her realization...
Died. Otto Spaeth, 69, industrialist and art patron who made a fortune in real estate and machine tools (Dayton Tool & Engineering Co.), used it to build a notable private art collection, including masterpieces by Braque, Picasso, Corot, Gauguin and Cezanne, but in recent years concentrated more on aiding lesser-known contemporary artists and working to improve church architecture through his Spaeth Foundation awards; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...premise that there is a sizable audience willing to buy programs first and names second. To reach that audience, they adopt tactics that would horrify conventional concert managers, who like to play it safe by riding war horses. Typically, they select the music first, then find accomplished but lesser-known performers to play it. Their first venture, in 1962, was a concert of all six Brandenburg concertos, which one critic forewarned them was nothing but "a lot of Bach and potatoes." But it was all gravy for Hoffman and Schutz, who sold out the hall even after adding a second...