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...always in the music business, star power is what drives the most successful DVDs, especially if the star, like Bernstein, happens to be dead. DVDs of such departed figures as singer Maria Callas and conductor Herbert von Karajan are top draws, not only because of their charisma but also because their performances have taken on a historic importance. Callas' farewell appearance on the opera stage, in Tosca,at London's Covent Garden in 1965, is the centerpiece of Maria Callas: Living and Dying for Art and Love,which is selling briskly at $24.99 after its release on the TDK label...
Among living performers, the Three Tenors, singer Andrea Bocelli, Levine with his many Metropolitan Opera productions and the vivacious soprano Cecilia Bartoli are just a few of the leading DVD sellers. Cases in point: Levine's two-disc version of Tristan and Isoldewith the Met, featuring tenor Ben Heppner and soprano Jane Eaglen, on Deutsche Grammophon ($39.98), and Cecilia Bartoli Sings Mozart and Haydn, a two-disc set with the Concentus Musicus Wien conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, on BBC/Opus Arte...
...that the JT cameo implies that there’s a new album on the way. And it also suggests that Snoop Dogg’s done trying to resist his place in the 2k5 landscape, embracing the clown shoes and teaming up with the greatest pop singer alive for a cheesy celebration of life. Snoop Dogg in cheesy celebration of life shockah...
Though Freddy Mercury, lead singer of the rock band Queen, pleaded operatically, “Can anybody find me somebody to love?” that other Queen from England is not quite so warm to romance. The royals grabbed headlines last month as Queen Elizabeth II announced that she would not be attending the again-delayed civil nuptials of her son, H.R.H Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles...
...students on the Harvard opera scene today came to Harvard whistling Wagner. Charles I. Miller ’08 had high school experience mostly as a piano player, actor, and musical-theater singer before landing the job of co-director for Princess...