Word: opera
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...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...
...auction of Maria Callas' personal effects, all of the soprano's underwear was bought by a former singer, who vowed to burn the items "to save the dignity and honor" of the opera legend...
When discussing the piano, Wild often refers to the orchestra and to opera. Asked about his long musical phrases, the extraordinary range of tone colors he commands or his uncommon ability to bring out the difficult inner voices in complex scores, he says, "That evolved from years of orchestral playing and accompanying singers. I was really hearing and absorbing colors and voices, and I worked hard to reproduce that enormous range of color and variety...
...afford to go to the theater, opera and sporting events that we'd probably miss out on at home," says Mary Alice. Erick, who once coached basketball and football, has discovered soccer. He loves to go to Guadalajara's Jalisco Stadium, where he joins thousands of fans wildly cheering on the favorite local team, the Chivas...
...soap opera in the future, actors have been replaced by robots, or "actoids," and one of them is acting up--showing signs of a human-like sense of humor. In the Manhattan Theatre Club's U.S. premiere of Ayckbourn's West End success, Janie Dee reprises her astonishing London performance as a robot whose emotions are an amalgam of all the bad scenes she's ever played. The play is astonishing too: at once a shrewd satire of TV, a warming love story and a potent meditation on the nature of humanity...