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Only a few weeks after the backstage sturm und drang of the Kathleen Battle affair, the Metropolitan Opera put an enthralling tempest where it belongs -- before an audience. The occasion was a spectacular new production of Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece Otello, in which astute direction, dazzling conducting and a first-rate cast led by Placido Domingo all combined to create a profound operatic experience...
...E.T.A. Hoffman, a German storyteller, wrote Nussknacker und Mausekonig (The Nutcracker and Mouse King)--the tale of an eccentric, somewhat grotesque, journey into the blurred area between reality and fantasy. In 1844, a French writer, Alexandre Dumas pere softened and sweetened Hoffman's tale into the story of a young girl's Christmas fantasy that would inspire Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov to stage it for the Maryinsky Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1892. Act One opens in the Silberhaus home where the family eagerly awaits party guests, and Clara and Fritz eagerly await the accompanying presents. Their mysterious...
Among yard sales of the rich and famous, this is one to watch. Next week Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis hopes to raise about $8 million at a Sotheby's auction to be held over nine days in the 500-room palace she calls home in Regensburg, Germany. To make the last payment on taxes of $40 million owed after the death of her billionaire husband Prince Johannes in 1990, the princess, once known for punk and profligacy, is offering a 4,000-lot array of paintings, jewelry, silver, furniture, liveried uniforms and ball gowns, as well...
This provision would check any attempts at magazines like "Borcht und Sauerkraut: The Journal of Volga-German Americans at Harvard...
...Crimson. But a quick reply by senior Matt Mallgrave took Vermont's early momentum away, and Harvard was off and skating. HOBEY BAKER WATCH Lineman Player/School/Year GP G Asst. Pts. Ted Drury, Harvard, Jr. 24 19 34 53 Mark Kauffman, Yale, Sr. 27 21 34 56 Greg Johnson, UND, Sr. 32 17 43 60 Jim Montgomery, Maine, Sr. 36 22 50 72 Chris Marinucci, Minn-Duluth, Jr. 32 29 33 62 Devid Sacco, BU, Sr. 33 22 29 51 Bryan Smolinki, Mich St., Jr. 35 30 34 64 Paul Karlya, Maine, Fr. 30 22 60 82 Derek Plants, Min-Duluth...