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...southeast gale and an undersea earthquake sent the sea flooding through Venice. Four feet of water overflowed the Piazza San Marco. Yet according to Peter Lauritzen in Venice Preserved (Adler & Adler; 176 pages; $29.95), the deluge bore good fortune. It helped to jolt the world into rescuing Venice from nearly two centuries of decay and depredation. Photographers Jorge Lewinski and Mayotte Magnus record the resurrection of the city. Lauritzen combines a sure hand for history with a light satirical touch for the bureaucracy of restoration...
...into a 100min., kid-friendly Magic Flute. And Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, Cold Mountain, the current Breaking and Entering) did a rapturously received Madama Butterfly this fall. Gelb has also hired Broadway directors ? Jack O'Brien, of Hairspray fame, and Bartlett Sher, who did The Light in the Piazza, to stage operas...
...Like Hairspray and Piazza, and a hundred others I could name, The First Emperor is a remake of a movie for the musical stage. So let's talk first about The Emperor's Shadow. It dramatizes an episode in the legend of the warlord who united the disparate Chinese tribes in 310 B.C. and ordered the erection of what would become the Great Wall. (Zhang told another fable of the first Emperor in Hero.) His name has a dozen transliterations, but we'll settle for the Met's spelling, Qin Shi Huangdi ? and, from now on, call him the warlord...
...come wintertime, nestled turns nasty, as not a ray of sun touches the town for nearly three months. So Viganella's mayor got the bright idea to install a giant, rotating mirror on a 900-m-high ridge to reflect the sun down on the shaded town's lone piazza...
...dying mountain town, except for the odd 5-m-by-8-m rectangular slab of metal perched on the rocky cliff above, like a giant shining postage stamp. By 10 a.m., with a computer adjusting the mirror's position, the sun is indeed ricocheting down to the piazza, but it's more like a light in your eye than sunshine on your face...