Word: metropolitanism
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Interviewer: Maestro, the Metropolitan Opera has unveiled Sir Peter Hall's new production of your opera Macbeth, starring Baritone Sherrill Milnes and Soprano Renata Scotto. When the revised version of Macbeth flopped in Paris in 1865, you were criticized for your treatment of Shakespeare. What attracted you to the play...
Nicholas Anderson, however, was overshadowed by his more prominent son, said Albert A. Swanson, a historian for Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), which owns the bridge...
Elegant examples of both past and present Aegean treasures were on display at New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art last week. But only fleetingly. One treasure, Actress Melina Mercouri, 57 (Never on Sunday), had to return home after paying a social call on "The Search for Alexander," the traveling collection of 180 works of art from the time of Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.). The artifacts will follow her home when the show ends its seven-city, three-year tour next July. But Mercouri, Greece's Minister of Culture, has not had much luck getting...
...have to sing. When an opera star's voice goes, he might just aswell leave the stage. And that is precisely what two tenors did this month at two of the world's most prestigious companies, the Vienna State Opera and New York's Metropolitan, causing consternation on both sides of the Atlantic...
...rent: two abandoned subway tunnels that stretch for nearly two miles some 50 feet beneath the streets of Manhattan. They are dark, dank and almost inaccessible. Present occupants are a few rats. If interested, contact New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority...