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...mostly the shift is away from traditional swashbuckle and toward more contemporary themes. Metropolitan Opera general manager Joseph Volpe notes that last year's stagings of Philip Glass's minimalist opera The Voyage didn't sell out, but he saw a whole new crowd in his theater. Increasingly, composers are turning to emotionally charged contemporary subjects. Stewart Wallace's Harvey Milk is considered a forerunner of a new creative order. On the drawing boards are works about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Michael Daugherty, and John Duffy's Black Water, about Chappaquiddick...
...Operas like these may give the art form new relevance to young audiences, but there are less weighty ways to attract them. Almost every house has a group or club aimed at the under-30 crowd. When Robert B. Driver took over as general director of the Opera Company of Philadelphia five years ago, he began to woo young professionals. Presto!--a brand new event called the Puccini-tini, a martini-tasting bash. A Junior Guild, for people under 35, offers a package of dinners and discounts plus a chance to try out as a spear carrier in Aida...
...Will we stop pigeonholing women and invoking stereotypes that limit their potential?" she asked a group of 400 prominent Australian women who had come to hear her speak at the Sydney Opera House. During a question-and-answer session with the audience, she was asked whether her problems are the result of being pigeonholed and stereotyped. "There is some of that," she said, adding that "there are many factors at work--I couldn't even begin to unpack them...
Democratic fund raiser John Huang has been out of sight in Washington, but he was practically stalking the President last week in Australia, where Clinton played golf with Greg Norman, ogled the scalloped opera house in Sydney and stomped through a rain forest near the Great Barrier Reef. No matter where Clinton went to get away, he found himself deflecting questions about Huang and his former boss, Indonesian banker James T. Riady. "Mark Twain said every dog should have a few fleas," the President quipped; "keeps them from worrying so much about being...
...most of this century. Yet here it is, another landmark racing past the windshield of this bull-market dragster. Should you care if the typical stock now yields a paltry 1 point something? After all, it's not as though your baby sitter were paging you at the opera. But yes, you should. For a lot of reasons, this is worrisome...