Table Of Contents: January 2000

Susan Graham: Living It Up in Operaworld

Vol. 64, No. 7

Scotto on Style
Renée Fleming
Giuseppe di Stefano

Features

Stages of di Stefano

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Now in his late seventies and happily retired, tenor great Giuseppe di Stefano remembers his career with affection, pride and humor -- but no regrets. JONATHAN KANDELL reports.

Tempo di Mascagni

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Just how should Cavalleria Rusticana be performed? It's the composer's own recordings that give ALBERT INNAURATO thrills.

Variations on an Idol

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DAVID HAMILTON examines how the music of Mozart inspired the art and career of Richard Strauss.

Scotto Voce

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The inimitable Renata answers questions from IRA SIFF on her sense of vocal style.

Friends and Rivals

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MARY JANE PHILLIPS-MATZ traces the complicated professional and personal relationships of five promising young composers named Catalani, Franchetti, Leoncavallo, Mascagni and Puccini.

Living It Up in Operaworld

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Susan Graham is having the time of her life as one of opera's most in-demand mezzo-sopranos. DAVID J. BAKER talks to this month's Met broadcast Octavian.

Moment of Truth

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Renée Fleming sings her first Metropolitan Opera Marschallins this month. Could this become her ideal role? The soprano shares her thoughts on Der Rosenkavalier with BROOKS PETERS.

Departments

Recordings

In Review

The Casts

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Romantic Heroine

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An anniversary salute to Anna Moffo by PATRICK GILES

On the Beat

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What to Read and Hear

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