Table Of Contents: August 2001

Sheer Style

Vol. 66, No. 2

Olga Borodina talks with Jennifer Melick

Joan Peyser on American Opera in the 21st Century
Can Novels Make Good Operas?
Alberto Vilar, Champion Arts Patron

Features

Slow Burn

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Olga Borodina projects stage-melting heat in any role, at any tempo. (Just don't try to rush her.) JENNIFER MELICK interviews the St. Petersburg-born mezzo, who returns to the Met next season as Verdi's Princess Eboli.

The Man Who Would Be Thanked

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RUDOLPH S. RAUCH visits Alberto Vilar, the champion patron of the arts world.

Up, Up and Away!

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GREGORY DOWNER offers a photo essay on jet-set opera stars.

Opera Under Construction

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From Seattle to Copenhagen to Venice, new (and renewed) opera houses are in the works. EMILY MITCHELL reports.

A Novel Idea

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Does great literature inspire great operas? JOEL HONIG thinks not.

Angels in America

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Producing opera in America is an expensive proposition. LEONARD J. LEFF talks to the women and men who are helping to foot the bill.

Future Indefinite

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More than a hundred new American operas were produced in the last decade of the twentieth century. Will any of them survive into the twenty-first? JOAN PEYSER offers a prognosis for the art form in the new millennium.

Departments

Recordings

In Review

Letters

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Video

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On PBS: Domingo in telecast of Le Cid from Washington, HGO's Little Women, Mostly Mozart Festival's Mozart Requiem; Callas in Paris on DVD

Viewpoint

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Books

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