Table Of Contents: October 2011

ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET: DIVA LAUREN FLANIGAN TAKES JOY IN HER COMMUNITY

Vol. 76, No. 4

• Smart Cookie: The Marketing Savvy of Lily Pons
• Tragic Accents: Soprano Claudia Muzio
• What's Your Ultimate Diva Moment?
• Classical Form: A New Tori Amos Song Cycle
• Sound Bites: Mojca Erdmann
• Canadian Soprano Karina Gauvin
• Almost Famous: Daniza Ilitsch

Features

The Diva Next Door

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Lauren Flanigan has enjoyed one of the most distinctive careers of her generation. Now she says she's decided to rebuild herself "from the inside out, by going back to what I always believed in." SCOTT BARNES visits the soprano at her home in Harlem.

Tiger Lily

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Coloratura Lily Pons had talent, looks and charm — and a ferocious determination to succeed. FRED COHN takes a look at the legend and the legacy of the soprano, who was once the top box-office attraction in opera.

Women on the Verge

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A true diva can be identified by the way she grabs her audience and won't let go. ERIC MYERS asks a few experts to name a favorite Diva Moment.

I, Claudia

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This year marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of the death of Claudia Muzio, the majestic Italian prima donna who was a peerless interpreter of Puccini and Verdi. IRA SIFF remembers "La Divina Claudia."

Karina Triumphant

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Canadian soprano Karina Gauvin, a connoisseur's singer whose repertory stretches from Baroque music to Barber, talks to RICHARD DYER.

The Amos Variations

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With her new album, Night of Hunters, the inimitable Tori Amos delivers a "twenty-first-century song cycle" riffing on hundreds of years of piano literature. OUSSAMA ZAHR offers a preview.

Departments

Recordings

In Review

Books

Sound Bites: Mojca Erdmann

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by LOUISE T. GUINTHER

OperaWatch

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by OUSSAMA ZAHR

On the Beat

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The people who orbit the diva; Daphne Malfitano moves two brilliant sopranos into The Family Room.
by BRIAN KELLOW

Viewpoint: Diva, Interrupted

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by F. PAUL DRISCOLL

Obituaries

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Star baritone Cornell MacNeil dies at eighty-eight; singers Paul Franke and Pierrette Alarie; philanthropist Agnes Varis; arts administrator Lord Harewood.