Word: opera
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Starting this fall, she is taking a leave of absence from Harvard to star as Bianca, the teenage daughter of Erica Kane (played by Susan Lucci), on the ABC soap opera "All My Children...
...glamorous as the soap opera job appeared, Riegel had serious doubts before accepting the role...
...streets were empty as all of Havana crowded around TV sets, and I don't know if there was a dry eye in the city. Usually there's a soap opera on TV at that time, and everybody complains when it's not shown - but even though they're just showing the footage of Elian's return over and over, people are still glued to their sets. Even the correspondents at the airport were crying like children at the overwhelming display of emotion by Elian's great-grandfather and his grandparents as they welcomed him home...
DIED. FRANK PATTERSON, 58, Irish tenor who recorded 36 albums in six languages, in styles ranging from opera to folk ballad; of cancer; in New York City...
...contemporary of Mahler's saw him as "a great terrorist genius who, striving for unattainable goals, meets the fate of Icarus." That's a shrewd appraisal of the passionate composer and conductor during his embattled last years as head of the Vienna Opera--when his visionary compositions and inspired performances were commonly met by savage criticism, often fueled by anti-Semitism. In this penultimate volume of his monumental biography, La Grange locates Mahler at the heart of turn-of-the-century Vienna's flourishing cultural milieu, which, together with Mahler's relationships with many of its major figures, he vividly...