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© OPERA NEWS 2008
CURRENT ISSUE
September 2008
vol 73, no. 3
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RENÉE FLEMING: LIFE AT THE TOP
Tenor Rising: Lawrence Brownlee
Broadway's Top Composers Reveal Their Favorite Operas
Ghost Story: The Bonesetter's Daughter Sings
Revisiting Bernstein's Mass
William Friedkin at LAO
Liam Bonner
Mignon Dunn
Our Picks for the Season's Smartest Tickets

Hot Tickets
A preview of the coming season’s most eagerly awaited events.
Her Favorite Year
This season at the Met, Renée Fleming will sing two of her favorite roles — Thaïs and Rusalka — and star in the company's opening-night gala. America's favorite soprano talks to F. PAUL DRISCOLL about the year she calls "one of the high points of my career."
Amazing Grace
No honking and screaming for Lawrence Brownlee, who has forged a major career by singing with consummate ease. JAMES C. WHITSON visits with the bel canto stylist extraordinaire.
Good Humor Man  Online Exclusive
Mark Campbell talks to ADAM WASSERMAN about the seemingly forgotten art of crafting a comic-opera libretto.
The Craftsman
Los Angeles Opera's new Il Trittico features the company return of Oscar-winning director William Friedkin, who relishes working in an art form he loves. BRIAN KELLOW reports.
Buzzworthy
Los Angeles Opera gears up for the U.S. premiere of The Fly, by Howard Shore and David Henry Hwang. WILLIAM V. MADISON is intrigued.
Ghost Story
This month, San Francisco Opera unveils The Bonesetter's Daughter, Stewart Wallace and Amy Tan's adaptation of Tan's haunting novel. JANET A. CHOI raises the curtain.
Say What You Feel
Marin Alsop's October 24 performance of Leonard Bernstein's Mass is one of the most eagerly-awaited events in Carnegie Hall's ninetieth-birthday tribute to the late master. Composer NICO MUHLY dashes off some notes on Bernstein's once-controversially populist 1971 work.
Over the Borderline
MICHAEL PORTANTIERE asks seven top Broadway composers about their thoughts on opera.
Out of the Shadows
Why isn't baritone Laurent Naouri better known? WILLIAM V. MADISON explains.
Viewpoint: First Gentleman
by F. PAUL DRISCOLL
OperaWatch
by F. PAUL DRISCOLL
On the Beat
Tomowa-Sintow speaks her mind on art versus commerce; Rucker helps launch Baltimore Opera's season with Aida; a windfall for the New York State Theater.
by BRIAN KELLOW
Sound Bites: Liam Bonner
by F. PAUL DRISCOLL
Reunion: Mignon Dunn
by ERIC MYERS
The Year in Opera
A calendar of the 2008–09 season, compiled by OUSSAMA ZAHR and LILY T. KASS
Books
Memoirs by Sarah Caldwell and Michael M. Kaiser
Obituaries
Soprano Adelaide Bishop; manager and public-relations executive Edgar Vincent
Dateline: United States  Online Exclusive
by TRISTAN KRAFT
Dateline: Canada & International  Online Exclusive
by TRISTAN KRAFT
Coda: Cantus Interruptus
by BRIAN KELLOW


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