Word: queenly
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Hailing from the Baroque era, this Antonio Cesti opera tells the tale of an Egyptian queen and her trials of loe. Director Sarah Meyers describes the "funny, light stories that make it accessible to modern audiences." Reduced significantly to a more condensed version, the opera features a "well-balanced production" of both Harvard students and students of the New England Conservatory...
Perched on a hilltop in southwestern Virginia, the Oaks garnered its name from the seven historic oak trees, now more than 300 years old, that surround the Queen Anne Victorian house, built for a bride in 1889. Its gardens unfold along Christiansburg's Main Street, once part of the Wilderness Road forged by Daniel Boone, today close to the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway and a rails-to-trails bicycle path...
...Shaws pay their greatest homage, though, to Chicago writers. A guest can curl up in the queen-size bed in the Sara Paretsky Room and get lost in a V.I. Warshawski mystery. Or creep in on little cat feet to the Carl Sandburg Room. The Mike Royko Room, with its antique three-quarter bed, is best suited for the lone traveler, while the Studs Turkel Suite in the carriage house provides a break from Working...
...Cracknell's voice is admittedly luscious, but suffers from overly forceful studio manipulations. She overdoes her attempt to be an indie-electronic queen, and ends up sounding like just another pretty pop princess...
Your item on new television shows [FALL PREVIEW, Sept. 4] cited Bette Midler's program Bette as the one that many advertisers give the best odds for success. Bette as a sitcom queen? I don't think so. She's about as relevant to modern life as Spiro Agnew gags. I'm unplugging my TV now. Call me when her show has been canceled. SACHA A. HOWELLS Los Angeles