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Crist shines in 2nd Story’s Master Class
All the right notes
Self-centeredness, tunnel vision, career obsession — these are not traits that endear us to a person. Yet without them, as Terrence McNally's absorbing Master Class makes clear, Maria Callas would not have attained her ranking as a renowned opera diva.
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BILL RODRIGUEZ
| August 31, 2011
French kiss
What we don't get in Boston
Productions I attended at the Opéra and Opéra Comique would be rare in New York, let alone Boston — though some of the performers would be familiar.
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LLOYD SCHWARTZ
| July 10, 2009
Anniversaries and other occasions
Masur's Mendelssohn, Orfeos from Norrington and Levine, the Discovery Ensemble, and the Inauguration 'performance'
Anniversaries, however fabricated, can still be useful. This year commemorates the 200th birthday of Felix Mendelssohn, the 150th birthday of Victor Herbert (both recently celebrated with intensive "orgies" on WHRB), the 200th anniversary of Haydn's death, and the 250th anniversary of Handel's death.
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LLOYD SCHWARTZ
| January 27, 2009
Lloyd Schwartz: the beat goes on
Letter from the Executive Editor
Classical-music critic Lloyd Schwartz recently marked his 30th year as a Phoenix contributor.
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PETER KADZIS
| January 30, 2008
The art of . . .
Bach at Emmanuel, Boston Baroque’s Cosí fan tutte, Kiri Te Kanawa’s farewell to Boston
Craig Smith’s Emmanuel Music began its season with Bach, the composer it’s best known for.
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LLOYD SCHWARTZ
| October 16, 2007
Beverly Sills, 1929–2007
The fun diva
Beverly Sills, the most loved American opera singer of her generation, died this past week from inoperable lung cancer at 78.
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LLOYD SCHWARTZ
| July 11, 2007
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