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...That question overshadowed the opening of The Producers in Berlin's Admiralspalast, the iconic theater where Hitler once sat in the elegant Führer's box and tapped his foot to the tunes of the light opera The Merry Widow. And answering it requires asking two more. It wasn't long into the show's premiere that the first - will German audiences laugh at a parody of Hitler? - was answered with an uproarious yes. But the second is trickier: Should they...
...Baseball and Opera Buffs. In Cooperstown, NY - home to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the Glimmerglass Opera - the four-star Otesaga Resort Hotel, located right on the banks of Lake Otsego is celebrating its 100th season. Like Mohonk, the resort is serving up special dishes from its 1909 menu, including rack of lamb Monte Carlo with Parisian potatoes. The hotel is right in town, within walking distance of the Fenimore Art Museum (the current exhibit features American artists' impressions of Rome at the turn of the century) and the Farmers' Museum, a living museum and ode to farming...
...FlyBy have a slight obsession with watching episodes of Ivory Tower, Harvard's premiere soap opera. It's quite startling, really, how the show manages to transform such familiar venues like the Winthrop dining hall into foreign places that set the stage for conversations and interactions that don't actually happen in real Harvard life...
...draw attention to enthusiastic diners double-ordering the gratin dauphinois. It may be the singing standard - the cast are fresh from the prestigious Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the London College of Music - that elevates dinner at Bel Canto from an evening meal to a night at the opera, but the food plays a mean second fiddle. Bistro classics include a beautifully caramelized shallot tatin and dill-rich salmon gravadlax, king prawn and black pearl scallop skewers, and hot chocolate fondant with violet ice cream. Still, the most delicious parts of the meal come with a side of virtuoso...
...captors, he recorded his material on about 30 tapes, each roughly an hour long. Judging from the content, most of the recording took place in or around 2000. Members of his family say even they were unaware that this was taking place. The recordings were on cassettes - mostly Peking opera and kids' music - that had been lying around the house. Zhao methodically noted their order by numbering them with faint pencil marks. There were no titles or other notes. The first few recordings were of discussions with friends. But most were taped alone, and Zhao apparently read from a text...