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...first Three Tenors' concert album, are plotting a different tenor-marketing strategy. Andrea Bocelli, a true crossover artist, releases a pop album for every classical disc he issues. The blind Italian's pop recording debut Romanza sold more than 3 million copies in the U.S. His recent disc of Verdi arias sold 75,000 during Christmas week alone. Yet it is difficult to shake the suspicion that his blindness has, in marketing terms, contributed to his success. Universal predictably denies it, but Bocelli is not taken seriously by the opera world: in a summer production of Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier...
...trend that worries mainstream classical performers. The star cellist Julian Lloyd Webber talks of a "vicious circle." Says he: "The way the record companies are working now is dangerous. When you go over and over the same Verdi and Puccini tunes, you shrink the repertoire and the industry constricts." In other words, by ignoring new classical music, by burying their budgets in the past, the record companies might be endangering their future...
...AIDA Disney faces a Lion King problem--how can anything measure up?--but this kid- friendly version of the opera, with Elton John and Tim Rice replacing Verdi, has pleasures aplenty. Heather Headley is a knockout, and Bob Crowley's inventive sets will do until the next Julie Taymor comes along...
...than simply providing topics for students to research. As a result, "the emphasis shifted to memorization rather than critical thinking," says Richard Golenko, who coached Houston's J. Frank Dobie High to a national title in 1996. Decathlon exams began asking trick questions such as how Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi traveled to work (the answer is below...
...prices for study guides and eliminate them for three decathlon categories. Alvino also vows to eliminate trivial questions and errors in the study materials, such as a reference to NASA as the "National Aeronautics and Space Commission." Until then, however, decathlon teams would be wise to remember: Verdi walked...