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This month, as the 1988 season opens and new General Director Lotfi Mansouri takes command, the road back begins. During his tenure, Adler had transformed ! the San Francisco Opera from a regional ensemble devoted largely to Italian opera into an international powerhouse that won renown by presenting major works, like Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, for the first time in the U.S., and by offering major American opera debuts to Leontyne Price, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Sir Georg Solti. While never equaling New York City's Metropolitan Opera in either budget (currently $23.7 million vs. $88 million) or length...
Major Mohammed Hassan Mansouri, a former air force pilot who fled to Canada, claims that "because of their medieval mentality and abysmal ignorance, the mullahs feel intimidated by modern skills." This has made them especially hostile toward the air force. "They can neither understand its sophisticated equipment nor fool its better educated cadres," Mansouri explains. The result: air force officers mysteriously vanish. Mansouri describes one pilot, whose plane was shot down, bleeding to death because the clergy refused to rescue...
...drawn-out war against Iraq has clearly helped the regime to deflect attention from much of its internal strife. The offensive occupies an army that could otherwise become dangerously restless, while allowing Khomeini through assassinations and contrived battlefield accidents to get rid of certain "undesirables." Says Mansouri: "Khomeini is the time bomb the Shah bequeathed to Iran when he fled." It is a lesson even the Soviets have had to learn the hard way. -By Pico Iyer. Reported by Raji Samghabadi/New York
...tension bursts over curtain calls. Pavarotti takes a disputed solo bow, so Scotto refuses to take her final bow. As the loudspeaker calls her repeatedly to the stage, she sits in her dressing room, ignoring Mansouri's just praise and his fervent pleas. There will...
...Luciano Pavarotti and Soprano Renata Scotto. San Francisco is his territory, the town that virtually takes credit for his American success; the lady is understandably apprehensive. She is a warm and pretty woman and also a diva who knows the craft of staging and upstaging. From Stage Director Lotfi Mansouri she seeksand getsendless reassurance...