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...songs themselves being New Zealand's lonely, anguished closest answer to the Velvet Underground; in all honesty, anyone who thinks she or he likes VU would do well to check out these records. The double LP costs the same as the CD and has a very cool foldout lyric sheet; if you can't find either one, send $9.75 to Ajax, P.O. Box 805293, Chicago IL 60680-4114. They also run an illuminating and well-stocked underground rock mailorder business...
Even by the famously hot-blooded standards of opera, last week's passionate dramma giocoso at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City was positively -- well, operatic. In the fiery lead role was the mercurial lyric soprano Kathleen Battle, renowned for leaving a trail of ill will in her wake wherever she goes. Opposing her were the forces of decorum and rectitude, represented by Met general manager Joseph Volpe. The denouement was catastrophe. Volpe, citing "unprofessional actions . . . profoundly detrimental to the artistic collaboration among all the cast members," summarily fired Battle from this week's production of Donizetti...
That's not a rap lyric. It's from an anonymous letter to a judge in Dade County, Florida -- part of the shared unconscious talking. And suddenly we're all ears. In one of the most startling spikes in the history of polling, large numbers of Americans are abruptly calling crime their greatest concern. Confronted by clear evidence of a big issue, politicians everywhere, including the one in the White House, are reaching for their loudest guns: prisons, boot camps, mandatory sentences. Months before the start of baseball season, the air is full of shouts of "Three strikes...
Nowhere is the turnaround more visible than at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, where Ardis Krainik, a former actress, chorister and secretary turned iron- fisted administrator, is today running one of the country's most successful and innovative mainstream companies. Since 1981, when she succeeded the late Carol Fox as general director of the Lyric, Krainik, 64, has presided over a string of seasons notable not only for their high musical quality, formidable star power and adventurous repertory, but also for their happy balance sheets and sold-out houses. "Rudolf Bing ((the late general manager of the Metropolitan Opera)) once...
...stunning new production that typifies the Krainik style. Krainik had originally planned the project as a co-production with the Chatelet Theatre Musical de Paris, to be conducted in Paris and Chicago by Daniel Barenboim. Following the French performance, Krainik decided that the lighting design was unsuited to the Lyric's stage. "It would have cost us an extra $600,000 just to put up and take down the lights," she explains. So, undaunted, she hired a new director, designer, conductor and soprano to complement her original cast. Baritone Franz Grundheber's tormented Wozzeck, soprano Kathryn Harries' ripe Marie, Graham...