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...notes. "That becomes kind of a strange loop." Thus, in the show, Silvio Dante (Steven Van Zandt) cracks up his Mob buddies with an Al Pacino impersonation from the maligned Godfather III ("Just when I thought I was out--they pull me back in!"), while family chief Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) expresses a preference for The Godfather II over the original. What characters, indeed. Like their real-life analogs, they know how to live their lives because they've seen them written out onscreen by soft-handed civilians like Chase. (Memo to the DeCavalcantes, by the way: Sorry...
...SOPRANOS This HBO drama reinvented the Mafia genre with Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini, in front), a besieged, postpatriarchal, Prozac-popping capo not truly the master of his family or his Family. But the show didn't stop there. Structured less like an episodic series than a seamless suite, it redefined TV storytelling. Watch it weekly, and it's an addictive saga; watch several at a stretch, and its rich vocabulary of metaphors and motifs submerges and resurfaces with novelistic grace...
...Note: The evening performance on Friday, Dec. 17 with Martina McBride, Take 6 and soprano Kelly Kaduce will be taped to be aired later on WCVB-TV Channel 5 and A&E Television Networks. Performances after the Christmas holiday will include the Gloria dei Cantores, directed by Elizabeth Patterson...
...Soprano and wunderkind CHARLOTTE CHURCH, 13, has been invited to perform on New Year's Eve by the Pope, President Clinton and the British royal family. So as not to offend any of them, she plans to stay home with her family and watch...
...Bolcom has refracted Miller's '50s angst through the prism of an unlikely source: Benjamin Britten's great opera Peter Grimes, in which a deeply alienated antihero confronts a band of small-minded English villagers who demand his conformity or his life. Incapable of sleeping with his wife Beatrice (soprano Catherine Malfitano) and tortured by his dark longing for his niece, Eddie finds himself similarly ostracized by his fellow immigrants--a situation that allows Bolcom to deploy his chorus to galvanizing effect. View is among the first American operas to take as a theme the immigrant experience, and Bolcom...