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...supporting roles are less impressive but competent, the positive exception being Justin Levitt, who makes the most of the play's hilarious characterization of Emperor Joseph II as a benign fool. More troublesome are the Venticelli, played by Howie Axelrod and Eleanor Kincaid, and the three nobles, Baron von Strack (Alfred di Venturi), Count Orsini-Rosen-berg (Peter Galatin) and Baron von Swieten (Arzhang Kameri). The Venticelli are cold and supercilious while the nobles are earnest and straightforward in their delivery: thoughtful characterization would have thing the other way around. Finally, overacting is a recurring problem with these roles, since...
...Eliot Gardiner and friends. Furthermore, the principals negotiate the passages of secco recitative with a rare sense for the shape that can be given to each phrase. Anthony Rolfe Johnson as Tito does an admirable job with a role that too easily becomes lifeless and statuesque. Anne Sofie von Otter is a brilliant Sesto, while Julia Varady's Vitellia is truly arresting, combining sensuality with vengeful duplicity. The orchestral playing, through the ministrations of the English Baroque Soloists, is tightly controlled and thoughtful, and the obbligato parts are spectacular. This is a truly visionary interpretation of a work that badly...
...gone to bat for Claus von Bulow, Michael Milken and Leona Helmsley. Last week Alan Dershowitz showed up in Indianapolis to handle "Iron Bars" Mike Tyson's appeal. Wonder if he's too busy to help out Mrs. Noriega with her grand-theft charges...
...temples. Angkor Tourism, a provincial organization, charges sightseers $120 a day to visit the site and will take in more than $1 million this year. Yet little, if any, of that money goes to maintenance of the monuments. "What money we get comes from Phnom Penh," says Uong Von, director of the Angkor Conservation Office. This office, with only 72 employees in the Angkor area, must deal not only with environmental degradation but also with thieves who are ready to steal any artifact, including statues carved into the building blocks of the monuments...
...Good German: Adam von Trott zu Solz...