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...guest conductor at New York's Metropolitan Opera House for the past decade, maestro Valery Gergiev of the Kirov Opera, part of the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, has developed a group of admirers worldwide for the epic Russian operas he has resurrected. Gergiev was scheduled to take the stage at the Met this past Christmas, but then Beijing called. The Chinese wanted him to conduct the opening opera in their country's highest palace of performance, the $40 million National Center for the Performing Arts, which is often referred to by its former name, the National Grand Theater...
...Gergiev and hundreds of singers and musicians (and two horses) were flown in from the Mariinsky Theater. And on Christmas night, they presented Alexander Borodin's classic opera Prince Igor on a world-class stage - alas, to an audience that appeared to pay little attention...
...performance was immaculate, and the acoustic effect of the theater is truly amazing," says Liu Xuefeng, a music critic and editor at the Chinese publication Opera and the Chinese-language edition of Gramophone. But the hall was filled with more than music. "I could hear every word from the stage as well as from my fellow audience members 10 seats away from me," says Liu. "Chattering, eating, children crying, camera flashes going off here and there - it was the worst audience I have ever seen." By the end of the opera, only 60% of the full house remained, he estimates...
With the American public as his audience, Bush regularly takes center stage to perform well-rehearsed and accomplished lies. His latest tour de force? Because of Iran's supposed continuous pursuit of nuclear weapons, only an aggressive foreign policy can prevent World War III. When the U.S. intelligence community reports that Iran halted its nuclear program in 2003, it shares the stage with the President. Do we applaud fabrications or facts? D. Kent Lloyd, GLADSTONE...
...have been intense rivals since Odinga fell out with Kibaki after the President reneged on political promises to the man who was then his coalition ally in the 2002 election. The wave of tribal killings erupted during counting that followed a Dec. 27 general election. At one stage on Sunday in this nation of 36 million, Odinga was one million votes in the lead. Election officials in Kibaki's strongholds then disappeared with the ballot boxes, only to reappear with dramatically enhanced tallies for the President, who was promptly declared the winner and sworn in less than an hour later...