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...interest in an authentic Porgy, beginning with the Houston Grand Opera's 1976 production and followed by an even more opulent version seen at New York's Radio City Music Hall two years ago. Last week, 50 years after its premiere, Porgy came all the way uptown to the Metropolitan Opera. At last, the work's operatic pretensions have been fairly and thoroughly tested. And you know what? Gershwin was almost right...
...canto, tossed off her last Donizettian roulade in 1980. Last week another of that generation's dominant divas appeared on an opera stage for the last time: Leontyne Price ended a glittering 32-year career with a vocally stunning performance of Verdi's Aida at New York City's Metropolitan Opera that proved she can still capture her peak form. At the opera's end, cheering fans shouted their approval for nearly half an hour...
...silverware sold out within four days. Major department stores in eight other cities across the U.S. are experiencing equally encouraging sales and have reordered. In addition, New York City's Museum of Modern Art has selected some of the pieces for its permanent design collection, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art is in the process of doing so. Says Marshall Field's Buyer Robert Doerr: "It's been a long time since the tabletop has had this kind of excitement...
...more recent years, except for occasional forays into furniture, architects have tended to confine their visions to larger structures. Their buildings, however, may be the very reason for the new venture in accouterments. R. Craig Miller, the Metropolitan's 20th century design associate curator, suggests that the architects are prompted by "a need for new furnishings to make postmodern interiors complete...
DIED. Fernando Corena, 67, Swiss-born buffo opera star who sang 726 performances with New York City's Metropolitan Opera from 1954 to 1978, specializing in such roles as Falstaff and Dr. Bartolo in The Barber of Seville and winning the delighted chuckles of audiences and critics, one of whom dubbed him "the greatest scene stealer in the history of opera"; of a heart attack; in Lugano, Switzerland...