Table Of Contents: July 2010

OPERA AND THE MOVIES

Vol. 75, No. 1

• Success Story: The Met: Live in HD
• Franco Zeffirelli: From Stage to Screen
• The Great Caruso Phenomenon
• Musical Lives: Composer Biopics
• Classical Music Goes Hollywood
• Life is a Dream at Sanfa Fe Opera
• Madeline Kahn
• Road Show: Lucerne
• Sound Bites: Joshua Hopkins

Features

Screen Tests

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Four years into the Met's Live in HD initiative, BARRY SINGER looks at the results, the implications and the future of the project's success.

Opera Indies

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ERIC MYERS screens some HD presentations from Emerging Pictures.

Movie Music

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RAY SAWHILL offers a guide to one of the most chaotic of movie genres: the composer biopic.

Vista Vision

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For decades, Franco Zeffirelli has defined lushness and largeness on the opera stage. STEPHANIE ZACHAREK looks at how his grand-scale perspective turned out in his big-screen ventures.

Mass Appeal

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ERIC MYERS reveals the backstory of Mario Lanza's The Great Caruso, the most influential opera movie ever.

Market Value

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POLLY FROST explores the Hollywood-style marketing techniques at work in Los Angeles's classical-music scene.

Sweet Mystery

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WILLIAM V. MADISON remembers Madeline Kahn, the brilliant comedienne who created Trixie Delight, Lili von Shtupp and other iconic movie roles of the '70s, and who almost chose a career as an opera singer.

What Dreams May Come

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DAVID BELCHER investigates the lengthy gestation of Lewis Spratlan's Pulitzer Prize-winning Life Is a Dream, which has its long-awaited world premiere this month at Santa Fe Opera.

Departments

Recordings

In Review

Books

Studies of Francesca Caccini and Kirill Kondrashin

75th Annual Membership Luncheon
HONORING FREDERICA VON STADE

© Dario Acosta 2010

Waldorf=Astoria, April 20, 2010

Viewpoint: Garbo Sings — Sort of

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by F. PAUL DRISCOLL

OperaWatch

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by OUSSAMA ZAHR

On the Beat

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At Ravinia, Patti gets her gun; the power of Penderecki at Carnegie Hall; Kaye as Julia Child in Hoiby's Bon Appétit!; Takesha Meshé Kizart stars in Donizetti’s Maria di Rohan at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts.
by BRIAN KELLOW