Table Of Contents: December 2010

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THE REAL DEAL: DEBORAH VOIGT

Vol. 75, No. 6

• Mining the Musical Gold in Fanciulla
• The Outrageous Life of David Belasco
• Question Time: Don Carlo's Grand Inquisitor
• Farewell to Joan Sutherland
• Supercharged: Marina Poplavskaya
• Sound Bites: Andriana Chuchman
• Road Show: Venice
• The Large-Scale Legacy of Katharine Cornell


Features
Independent Streak ToC THMB 12110Independent Streak
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DAVID BELCHER charts the fast rise of the driven, dynamic soprano Marina Poplavskaya, who sings in two new Met productions this month.
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BRIAN KELLOW evaluates the large-scale legacy of Katharine Cornell, one of the American theater's great stars.
Is Bigger Better Toc THMB 12110Is Bigger Better? 
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ROBERT SANDLA looks at the burgeoning production values of City Center's popular Encores! series.
Sutherland ToC THMB 12110Joan Sutherland: 1926–2010
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BRIAN KELLOW pays tribute to a legend.
That girl TOC THMB 12110That Girl
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Deborah Voigt, who sings La Fanciulla del West this season at the Met and Lyric Opera of Chicago, sits down with FRED COHN to listen to some golden Minnies from the past.
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FRED COHN spends some time with a century's worth of Fanciulla recordings. 
How the West Was Won ToC THMB 12110How the West Was Won
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STEVEN MERCURIO offers a conductor's-eye view of Puccini's impeccably crafted score for La Fanciulla del West.
Great Belasco ToC THMB 12110The Great Belasco
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It's not just anybody that can put a blizzard onstage. HELEN SHEEHY recalls David Belasco, who revolutionized the American theater with his technical wizardry and realistic sensibility in the first decades of the twentieth century.
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The Grand Inquisitor scene from Don Carlo remains one of the most chilling set-pieces in all of Verdi. PATRICK DILLON reports.
Departments
KozenaLett.CD Recordings
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A biography of Samuel Ramey; politics and Prague's National Theater; the life and influence of Alban Berg; love in the operas of Richard Wagner.
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by F. PAUL DRISCOLL
Road Show Venice ToC THMB 12110Road Show: Venice
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STEPHEN HASTINGS visits La Serenissima.
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by OUSSAMA ZAHR
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Metropolitan Opera, New York
September 27
© Caroline P. Digonis 2010 

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Peter Gelb and simulcast host Deborah Voigt
© Julie Skarratt 2010 

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Eric Owens and Christine Baranski
© Julie Skarratt 2010 

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Anjelica Huston
© Caroline P. Digonis 2010 

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Actress Vera Farmiga with Renn Hawkey
© Caroline P. Digonis 2010 

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Patrick Stewart
© Caroline P. Digonis 2010 

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Pop singer Rufus Wainwright and Jörn Weisbrodt
© Caroline P. Digonis 2010 

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Rheingold stars Stephanie Blythe and Bryn Terfel
© Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera 2010 

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Lyric Opera of Chicago
October 1
© Dan Rest/Lyric Opera of Chicago 2010

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Andrew Davis escorts Nadja Michael for the Grand March
© Dan Rest/Lyric Opera of Chicago 2010 

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Honored guest Samuel Ramey and his wife, Lindsey
© Dan Rest/Lyric Opera of Chicago 2010 

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Macbeth cast and crew: Štefan Kocán, director Barbara Gaines, Nadja Michael, Leonardo Capalbo, maestro Renato Palumbo and Thomas Hampson
© Dan Rest/Lyric Opera of Chicago 2010

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San Francisco Opera
September 10
© Drew Altizer Photography 2010

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Nancy Pelosi and her husband, Paul
© Drew Altizer Photography 2010 

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Nicola Luisotti, Dolora Zajick and David Gockley
© Drew Altizer Photography 2010 

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Aida designer Zandra Rhodes
© Drew Altizer Photography 2010

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Willie Brown (former Mayor of San Francisco), Charlotte Shultz (CA Chief of Protocol), George Shultz (former Secretary of State)
© Drew Altizer Photography 2010 
Photos from the season-opening nights of The Metropolitan Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago and San Francisco Opera.
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Giordani saddles up to sing Dick Johnson at the Met; a Boston University academic makes Fanciulla's centennial her personal crusade.
by BRIAN KELLOW
Sound Bites Chuchman THMB 12110Sound Bites: Andriana Chuchman
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by F. PAUL DRISCOLL 
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by BRIAN KELLOW and TRISTAN KRAFT 
Broadcast Don Carlo TOC THMB 12110Metropolitan Opera Broadcast: Don Carlo 
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The Met: Live in HD Transmission of Saturday, December 11, 12:30 P.M.
Radio Broadcast of Saturday, December 18, 12:30 P.M.
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Broadcast of Saturday, December 25, 1:00 P.M.
Broadcast Pelleas THMB 12110Metropolitan Opera Broadcast: Pelléas et Mélisande 
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Broadcast of Saturday, January 1, 12:00 P.M.
 
Obituaries TOC THMb 12110Obituaries
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Singers Dolores Wilson and László Polgár; musicians Herbert Grossman and Philip Eisenberg; critic Robert Baxter.
 
Dateline
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by TRISTAN KRAFT
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by SCOTT BARNES

 
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