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Fonseca was active in Harvard-Radcliffe Television (HRTV), serving as vice president of the executive board and as a director of HRTV’s soap opera, “Ivory Tower...
...DIED. NICOLAI GHIAUROV, 74, Bulgarian bass whose warm, rich voice and striking stage presence carried him through almost half a century of opera stardom; in Modena, Italy. Ghiaurov made his debut in 1955 as Basilio in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, and went on to such signature roles as King Philip in Verdi's Don Carlo and the title role in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov...
...addition to fiction and poetry, Updike—who now tries to produce three pages every day—has written a play and the libretto for an opera with music by Gunther Schuller...
...Beach, Fla., a 72-acre, $600 million development built to create a kind of instant secondary downtown. (The city's original downtown is not far away.) At its heart is an open-air plaza surrounded by shopping as well as a 20-screen cineplex, designed to resemble the Paris Opera House, and nearly 600 residential units, including town houses, apartments and lofts...
DIED. TONY RANDALL, 84, versatile, opera-loving actor who was a fixture of the American stage and screen for more than 50 years but is best remembered as the punctilious fussbudget Felix Unger in the 1970s TV sitcom The Odd Couple; in New York City. By the time he was cast in his defining role, Randall was already an accomplished performer, having appeared in the original Broadway production of Inherit the Wind and as a smart-aleck sidekick in three Rock Hudson?Doris Day films. He remained active in his 70s and 80s, founding the National Actors Theater...