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BETTER BROWSER Coke and Pepsi, McDonald's and Burger King, Netscape and Internet Explorer--sometimes we forget there are more than two choices in life. Opera, a Web browser that hails from Norway, has a lot going for it that the others don't. Opera takes up less space on your hard drive--it's only a 3MB download--it crashes less often and in many cases it downloads Web pages faster than its rivals. A new and improved version, Opera 6.0, is now available free at www.opera.com...
...could be the tastiest Italian import since sliced prosciutto. ALESSANDRO SAFINA, 36, a smooth-voiced tenor whose self-titled CD has hit the States, is here to sell his brand of "melodious, romantic pop opera." Achieving crossover success is tricky, but Safina is on the right track. "I like music with passion," he says, "Rachmaninoff, Puccini...U2." Safina performed on the sound track of Moulin Rouge, singing backup to star Ewan McGregor on Elton John's Your Song, and he has also toured with Coolio, UB40 and the Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde. But the singer Liz Hurley calls "ravishingly sexy...
...love at first sight,” his wife said. “I loved opera and he didn’t mind sitting for hours listening...
...brief 90 minutes, Dido and Aeneas moves briskly and never grates on an audience that may be unaccustomed to opera. In fact, the weakest aspect of the production was the intermission inexplicably added to break up the second act. It interrupted the narrative flow of the opera, pulling one out of a highly effective entertainment...
...radcliffe dramatic Club’s production of The Who’s Tommy feels much like standing front and center at a high-energy rock concert. An intense buzz of electricity runs through this production; from beginning to end, the audience is swept up by the quintessential rock opera, which extols the themes of freedom and individuality...