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...under the direction of Peter Gelb, seems to have gone movie-mad this season. Movie-director mad, anyway. Zeffirelli, the opera and film visionary, has four productions on the season's schedule: La Boheme, Tosca, La Traviata and Turandot. Julie Taymor ? best known for her Lion King on Broadway but also director of the films Titus, Frida and the forthcoming Beatles pastiche Across the Universe ? has condensed her zazzy Zauberflote, which premiered at the Met in 2004, into a 100min., kid-friendly Magic Flute. And Anthony Minghella (The English Patient, Cold Mountain, the current Breaking and Entering) did a rapturously...
...Hoyer still drubbed Murtha by a vote of 149-86, Pelosi emerged from the ballot room and pronounced Hoyer's win "a stunning victory." By the look on her face, she meant it. Pelosi went to Hoyer's party that night but retreated afterward to the downtown- Washington restaurant Tosca with a dozen or so of her closest allies. They entertained one another with stories about an old rivalry between Phil Burton and Texas Congressman--ultimately Speaker-- Jim Wright that had divided the Democrats decades ago. Pelosi seemed cheerful and relaxed--anything but war weary. It was a reminder...
While many operas have examined this struggle—from “Aida” to “Tosca,” from “Les Huguenots” to “Andrea Chenier”—this particular work observes the misguided idealism of the French Revolution that sweeps up the Carmelites, a small convent of dedicated and idealistic nuns. “Dialogues” focuses on the uncertainty and vulnerability of the sisters, intensifying their fear and pain with intimate music and unstable melodies and dialogues...
Here is the effortless technique of Melba, formidable in the mad scene from a 1901 Lucia di Lammermoor. Here is the Italian tenor Emilio de Marchi, the first Cavaradossi, ringing the rafters with a triumphant Vittoria! in a 1903 Tosca. Here too is the white-hot French soprano Emma Calv, a peerless Carmen; the Polish soprano Marcella Sembrich, who negotiates the Queen of the Night's treacherous coloratura con molto brio in a 1902 Magic Flute; and the soaring American soprano Nordica (ne Norton), who must have been one of the most glorious Brnnhildes in history. And here...
...star, like Bernstein, happens to be dead. DVDs of such departed figures as singer Maria Callas and conductor Herbert von Karajan are top draws, not only because of their charisma but also because their performances have taken on a historic importance. Callas' farewell appearance on the opera stage, in Tosca,at London's Covent Garden in 1965, is the centerpiece of Maria Callas: Living and Dying for Art and Love,which is selling briskly at $24.99 after its release on the TDK label last month...