Word: opera
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your unqualified endorsement of the outrageous three-ring circus known as Luciano Pavarotti makes a mockery of opera...
...fervent admirer of Signor Pavarotti's voice and technique, but I find it unfortunate that you referred to Renata Scotto in such a negative manner. In the televised La Gioconda. Scotto, singing magically, was the full embodiment of opera as drama, intense, heartbreaking and constantly exciting...
...played the klunk as Colonel Klink, the inept P.O.W. camp commander in TV's forever rerunning Hogan's Heroes. Away from reel life, Werner Klemperer is anything but a Dummkopf. This week at New York City's Metropolitan Opera, Klemperer is definitely out of Luftwaffe uniform and appears in turban and robe as Turkish Pasha Selim, a nonsinging role in Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio. The role is not a one-shot stop from the stalag for Klemperer. The son of famed Conductor Otto Klemperer, he has also narrated Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder...
...producers of the show, called "Soap Operas Go to College," came to Harvard to see whether students at Ivy League schools are interested in soap opera courses and whether they watch the daytime programs, Cross said...
Students at the meeting said they would take a soap opera course if Harvard offered it only if it did not conflict with their favorite programs. "I would definitely take it unless they offered it opposite 'One Life to Live'," Rohan said. Another student said he feels "almost sacrilegious" missing an episode...