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...Beautiful Voice, Good Legs The 25-year career of Italian tenor Franco Corelli, who died in October, took him from La Scala in Milan to the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, where he performed on 368 occasions [MILESTONES, Nov. 10]. In an April 6, 1962, profile we traced his climb to opera's heights...
...draw a big meaty bass line from Flannery O’Connor to the Drive-By Truckers, who distill a murky Southern legacy of incest, murder and generational family feuds. Decoration Day is less ambitious but ultimately more satisfying than their patchy double-disc breakthrough Southern Rock Opera, as the band better weaves their shotgun triple-guitar formula and continue to deliver their moonshine-soaked tales with equal bouts of irony and reverence. With no less than three capable songwriters at their disposal, the songs occasionally sound better off the lyric sheet than through speakers. But when the band...
...Gilbert and Sullivan Players aim to delight audiences with their fall comic opera, The Gondoliers. Set in Venice, the opera tells the story of two jolly gondoliers who have recently chosen brides, unaware that one of the two lovelies is actually the King of Barataria. A sure flurry of laughs, confusion, music and dance. Through Dec. 13. 2 p.m.; 8 p.m. Tickets $4-10; $6-12. Agassiz Theater, 10 Garden St., Cambridge...
KELLY CONLIN Magazine Maven In October Primedia, publisher of more than 250 specialty magazines like Motor Trend and Soap Opera Digest, named Conlin, 43, its CEO, ending a seven-month search. He had previously headed technology publisher International Data Group, where he helped launch the popular For Dummies book series. Conlin hopes to leverage Primedia's enthusiast titles in a new way, through toys. Gamemaker THQ will release a PC game under Primedia's Hot Rod name, while Radio Shack is selling a Super Street remote-controlled...
...would think that men who thrive in the trenches of football would care about a show that’s really a soap opera in disguise...