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Last spring, Manon Slome was walking down a street in New York City when she noticed something odd. "Store after store was closed," she said. "When stores are empty, it's like, What's going on? It was a feeling of siege...
...donna, due uomini.” Italian for “one woman, two men,” this timeless dramatic formula of the calamitous, star-crossed love-triangle has inspired almost every classic opera in the grand tradition—from “Manon Lescaut” and “Eugene Onegin” to “Carmen” and “Tosca.” But its tradition dates back to the early 17th century, when Francesco Cavalli composed “L’Ormindo,” one of the earliest...
...attention of the major opera houses. Beverly Sills, the redheaded child radio star whose mother dreamed she'd be the "Jewish Shirley Temple," stayed home, loyally working her way up through New York's "second" City Opera and drawing raves as a brilliant coloratura soprano in shows from Manon to Cleopatra. Though she guested around the globe, the Met's Rudolf Bing, who scoffed at U.S.-trained artists, refused her a major role. (Sills' belated 1975 Met premiere, following Bing's retirement, earned a 20-minute standing ovation.) Her rise seemed inevitable. Witty, smart, tough and down-to-earth...
...escort guests to the grand foyer of the Staatsoper, since the celebrated opera house is just across the Bebelplatz from the hotel. As for the tough task of securing seats at sold-out performances, Raber managed that even when Russian soprano Anna Netrebko was singing the lead in Manon last month as well as reservations for supper afterward at Borchardt, Berlin's power restaurant. Behrenstrasse 37, 10117 Berlin; tel. + 49 30 460 60 91121; concierge.derome @roccofortehotels.com...
...CYCLING Michael Barry, Toronto Lyne Bessette, Knowlton, Que. Kiara Bisaro, Courtenay, B.C. Gord Fraser, Nepean, Ont. Ryder Hesjedal, Victoria, B.C. Manon Jutras, Montreal Seamus McGrath, Millgrove, Ont. Lori-Ann Muenzer, Edmonton Susan Palmer-Komar, Hamilton, Ont. Marie-H?lene Premont, Ch?teau-Richer, Que. Alison Sydor, Victoria, B.C. Eric Wohlberg, Levack...