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Perhaps because its stars must regularly don Viking helmets, opera seemed to be the last performing art in which talent still mattered more than looks. That was until London's Royal Opera at Covent Garden denied leading soprano DEBORAH VOIGT her signature role of Ariadne in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos because the well-fed diva couldn't fit into the little black dress the casting director had to fill. "I have big hips," Voigt told London's Sunday Telegraph, "and Covent Garden has a problem with them." The opera house said it "deeply regrets" that the weight issue became...
Informed of the lower salary cap yesterday, William A. Strauss ’69, a signer of the letter to Summers, said the change was not sufficient...
...don’t think they should be paid more than the president of Harvard,” Strauss said...
Seven members of the Class of 1969 wrote Summers at the end of last year to protest the unusually high wages, and one of the signers, William A. Strauss ’69, said yesterday that other graduates had since followed suit...
William A. Strauss ’69 is co-founder and director of the Capitol Steps, playwright of three musicals and co-author of nine books, including Generations and Millennials Rising...