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...actor was at ease with attending reporters, enough so, in fact, to sing an entire verse of the "Underdog" theme song with the press eventually joining...
...Monaco had to throw Boccanegra together in eight days--the chronically overbooked Placido Domingo was late in starting rehearsals; Vladimir Chernov, the Boccanegra, was silenced by flu; and Cheryl Studer, who was to sing Boccanegra's daughter, canceled. In a remarkable piece of last-minute luck, the Met was able to sign Te Kanawa. On opening night the ensemble came through under conductor James Levine's eloquent direction. Only the massive council-chamber scene looked tentative. Viva grand opera that is grand...
...Hekes' love is electric, violent and ultimately familiar: When Jake (Temuera Morrison) and his wife Beth (Rena Owen) sing the blissful ballad "Here Is My Heart," all their friends can see the passion crackling between them. But 18 years of marriage, five children and the frustrations of living on the dole in Auckland, New Zealand, leave their scars -- as do Jake's fists, when too much liquor primes the rage within him. Why, then, has "Once Were Warriors" become New Zealand's all-time homemade hit? TIME critic Richard Corliss says director Lee Tamahori's film combines "toxic love" with...
Blending Southern rock and soulful blues, this absorbing debut album by South Carolina quartet Hootie & the Blowfish has become an unexpected commercial smash, selling more than a million copies. It features the catchy, sing-along number "Hold My Hand," which has landed in Billboard's Top 10. "Hootie's music may be deeply personal, but it's not wimpy," says TIME pop music critic Christopher John Farley. "The band's sound is big and guitar stuffed, and lead singer Darius Rucker's voice is always bluesy and confident...
...effectively evoke 1950s America. And the uninhibited, vocally exemplary performance of the title role by soprano Lisa Gustafsson, 25, partly redeems the evening. She becomes the much younger, equally alluring sister of such operatic sirens as Carmen, Lulu and Katerina Ismailova. If only, like them, she had something to sing...