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...favorite song offers welcome procrastination from life’s responsibilities. Why one becomes so obsessed with certain artists and devotes hours to the pursuit of their music is a complicated affair to dissect. But Mendy, one of the characters in Terrence McNally’s The Lisbon Traviata, offers some insight when he explains his obsession with Maria Callas: “Opera doesn’t reject me, the real world does...
Cooper later compares Wurtzel to La Traviata or a martyred saint: a figure we love to watch suffer. “Ordinary suffering tends to be kind of dull, whereas the Passion of Liz is pathos raised to the pitch of art porn,” he writes in an e-mail. “Agony on ecstasy. If drag queens are not dressing as Elizabeth Wurtzel 30 years down the road, I’ll be deeply surprised...
...each other Q-Tips until one sticks a swab in so deep that blood spurts out. And while Philip Morris gives money to charities and the arts, I ask you to ask yourself if you've ever been handed a program that reads "Q-Tips Presents Verdi's La Traviata." And there aren't any Q-Tips racing teams. That's because the company spends all its money on the rap music...
...each other Q-Tips until one sticks a swab in so deep that blood spurts out. And while Philip Morris gives money to charities and the arts, I ask you to ask yourself if you've ever been handed a program that reads "Q-Tips Presents Verdi's La Traviata." And there aren't any Q-Tips racing teams. That's because the company spends all its money on the rap music...
...First on the scene was the French-born Roberto Alagna, who had people talking about "the new Pavarotti" with his 1990 performance in La Traviata at Milan's La Scala. When, six years later, he married the sensational young Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu, you could almost hear record company executives cheer. By Three Tenors standards, however, the couple's sales have disappointed. Alagna's label, EMI, is reluctant to disclose figures, but according to music retailer HMV, his best showing-an album of duets with Gheorghiu-sold no more than 70,000 copies in Britain. Critically overshadowed by his wife...