Word: opera
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...peak of its popularity in the 1920s, the Wertheim department store on Leipziger Platz in central Berlin boasted of being the biggest in Europe, the place shoppers could find "everything under one roof," from French goat cheese to Wagner opera scores. One contemporary writer even hailed the emporium, with its statues and marble columns, as the Berlin Louvre. Like so much else in Berlin, Wertheim fell victim first to the Nazis and then to the postwar communist rulers of East Germany. Most of the Jewish Wertheim family members fled Germany or were killed at Auschwitz, and the property was nationalized...
...success without having the responsibility if it fails." Others are happy for an early career push. "You have to get known, and in summer films you do get attention," says Elizabeth Banks, 29, who has the female lead (supporting Tobey Maguire and Jeff Bridges) in the horse opera Seabiscuit. For an actor, working beats not working--so why not in a movie that people will pay to see, rather than one that plays twice at Sundance and then vanishes...
...Castello di Borghese Vineyard & Winery, formerly owned by the pioneering Hargraves, also is host to an array of events, including live opera and art exhibitions. Located on Sound Avenue, the vineyard can be spotted from a distance by the stacks of wine barrels on the lawn. The barrels often have announcements posted on them, a tradition started by the Hargraves and continued by the Borgheses...
This article included enough lurid details of the brothers' atrocities for a prime-time TV soap opera or a month's worth of tabloid news. We know now that they were abusive, predatory, murderous criminals, but the oddly glamorized relish with which you chronicled their deeds has the scent of misguided Hollywood idolatry. DEAN LAMANNA Venice, Calif...
Your story on the new production of Brundibar, a long-forgotten children's opera rediscovered by artist Maurice Sendak [OPERA, June 2], managed to exclude any mention of the work's composer Hans Krasa, a Czech who died in Auschwitz in 1944. Can anyone imagine an article about the revival of A Long Day's Journey into Night without a reference to Eugene O'Neill? MICHAEL BORISKIN ARTISTIC AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR COPLAND HOUSE Cortlandt Manor...