Word: orth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...launched himself on a cross-country spree, killing five men, among them the designer Gianni Versace. This unleashed torrents of media coverage, much of it by trash-TV shows and their supermarket sisters. Now, as if that were not enough to sate prurient tastes, two books revisit the events. Orth, a writer for Vanity Fair, unloads her notebooks indiscriminately, providing an overdetailed, pedestrian chronicle. Cunanan, a gregarious, wickedly clever mythomaniac and petty thief, disported himself in the kinky gay netherworld of alcohol, drugs, prostitution and sadomasochism. In a jealous rage he murdered two former lovers and an elderly...
Director Christopher Alden stages the action briskly, resisting the temptation to demonize White. Robert Orth as Milk and Raymond Very as White are well-matched antagonists, vocally and dramatically, and Ward Holmquist conducts the score convincingly. The production will travel to New York City in April, to Germany in December and to San Francisco itself in November 1996. By that time, another one of these sorts of operas-Juice-will no doubt be premiering somewhere...
...Russert and Maureen Orth...