Word: stading
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Familiar from its various stage and cinematic incarnations, Liaisons, sung in English, is an extravagant chess match of check and mate -- and mate and mate. The Marquise (mezzo Frederica von Stade, in top form) is an archmanipulator who wields her sensual allure like a double-edged sword, encouraging her lover's worst instincts as she wreaks her revenge on society. Her foil, the unapologetic knave Valmont (the splendid baritone Thomas Hampson), is a cynical womanizer who makes the fatal mistake of falling in love with one of his victims, unwisely and too well. Who is worse? The amoral rake...
...rehearsals and about 14 performances, with a no-play-no-pay proviso and no stipend for rehearsal time. The top salary is $1,800 per performance; international stars earn as much as $12,000 a night. So Sussex gets them early or not at all: Pavarotti, Frederica von Stade and Kathleen Battle all passed through, but Domingo, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Cecilia Bartoli slipped...
Emily L. Raymer, assistant to the artistic administrator of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a singer herself, says, 'We send everyone [who has problems] to him." Raymer cited world-renowned opera singer Frederica cited world-renowned opera singer Frederica von Stade as just one of Zeitels' famous patients...
...similarly eclectic spirit enlivens A Carnegie Hall Christmas Concert, a recording of a 1991 performance that featured Kathleen Battle, Frederica von Stade, Wynton Marsalis and Andre Previn conducting the Orchestra of St. < Luke's. This potpourri of holiday goodies makes a determined effort to be culturally inclusive: one of its many delights is the calypso Christmas tune Mary's Little Boy Chile...
When Moses arrived to fill von Stade's shoes, he was greeted with a system in flux. As first-years all moved into Yard dorms and ate all their meals in the Union, life for them was becoming increasingly isolated. Although he advocates a first year that is special and distinct from the rest of the college experience, Moses was concerned that Yardlings were in danger of being too cut off from everyone else at the College...