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Forget Cecilia Bartoli. The hottest female name in classical music right this second is a perky little Welsh soprano named Charlotte Church. Her first CD, Voice of an Angel (Sony Classical), went double platinum in Britain and rose to No. 4 on the U.K. pop charts. In recent weeks she's been seen in the U.S. on The Rosie O'Donnell Show and Late Show with David Letterman. Her summer schedule includes pledge-drive appearances on public-TV stations across the country and a June 14 benefit performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington that President Clinton was expected...
Daniels has always been comfortable with falsetto--the son of two South Carolina voice teachers, he warbled soprano arias as a party trick in college--but it was not until his last year at the University of Michigan that it occurred to him to start using it in earnest. After a string of bad performances in 1992 threw him into "a pretty horrible depression," he told a psychotherapist about what he called his "other voice." She replied that both voices came from the same person. Within days he realized his true identity as a singer; just five years later...
MOST GRACEFUL EXIT Mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade (8), at Sierra Nevada College, who sang Aaron Copeland's Simple Gifts...
What makes Gandolfini's distance from the universe of projection and transference even more compelling is that the character actor (featured recently in A Civil Action and now in 8mm) has come into fame as the star of HBO's sublime series The Sopranos, the story of a suburban mafioso's efforts to deal with an identity crisis. The show shares the premise of the current hit film Analyze This, but unlike that comedy The Sopranos has a rich life beyond the wackiness of its conceit. For help with his troubles, Gandolfini's Tony Soprano--overburdened Mob manager, conflicted husband...
...point, Chase recalls, Tony was supposed to be angry at his nephew-employee, and the scene called for the elder Soprano to give the younger a light slap. Gandolfini thought it would be truer to have Tony go for his throat. "That taught me a lot about my character," Chase reflects. "It helped keep me honest...