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Tenor Franco Corelli has died at the age of 82. Requiescat in pace. Obituary at ctv.ca According to a message at opera-l, "Milano will say goodbye to Franco Corelli . . . October 31, 2:30 PM at San Carlo's Church, walking distance from the Duomo and La Scala. "His ashes will be then buried at Cimitero Monumentale." |
| "Former ABBA singer Agnetha Faeltskog is recording her first album in 16 years and plans to release it early next year," reports Associated Press. |
| "In a stroke of creative casting, Tom Selleck will play President Eisenhower in a two-hour TV movie for A&E about the buildup to D-Day. The production of the tentatively titled 'Eisenhower: Thunder in June' is being fast-tracked for a spring air date, timed to the 60th anniversary of the historic invasion," reports Reuters. |
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| Shirley MacLaine and her dog Terry have written a book together, Out on a Leash : Exploring the Nature of Reality and Love. |
| The Vienna State Opera has announced that tenor Franco Bonisolli died on October 30 at age 65. "Opera spokeswoman Margarete Arnold announced the death but did not give the cause or say where he died," says an Associated Press article in the Boston Globe. |
| "Clay Aiken's 'Measure of a Man' is the best pop album of 2003," says a Reuters review in the Boston Metro. |
| A DVD version of the Italian-language film of the opera Carmen with Franco Corelli and Belen Amparan will be released at amazon.com on November 11, 2003. |
| An Opera Rara recording of Giacomo Meyerbeer's Margherita d'Anjou with Annick Massis and Bruce Ford is being released in the United States on November 11, 2003, and can be ordered from amazon.com. |
| The DVD of the Paris Opera War and Peace is being released in the United States on November 18, 2003, and can be ordered from amazon.com. |
| The DVD version (for United States and Canada) of a 2001 performance of Verdi's Falstaff with Juan Diego Flórez as Fenton and Barbara Frittoli as Alice is being released on November 18, 2003, and can be ordered from amazon.com. The performance, at the small Teatro Verdi in Busseto, Italy, featured sets and costumes recreated from a performance of 1913. |
| Iain Duncan Smith, recently ousted as leader of Britain's Tory party, has written a novel, The Devil's Tune, a thriller set largely in the United States, that received so-so reviews at best from three critics at guardian.co.uk. "Art dealers, Italian settings, jet-setting high life, sexy pretenders to the American presidency" are among the book's topics, writes John Sutherland. The book can be ordered from amazon.co.uk. |
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| November 7, 2003 "Many of the world's biggest recording artists assembled in Scotland for the MTV Europe Music Awards last night. The star-studded event was dominated by the US pop star Justin Timberlake, who walked away with awards for best album, best male and best pop act at the event in Edinburgh. * * * "The ceremony, hosted by Christina Aguilera and Vin Diesel, was broadcast live to an estimated audience of a billion people worldwide." --from an article at guardian.co.uk. A billion people? Imagine! I don't think that I've heard any of Justin Timberlake's songs. I really didn't know who he was. |
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| Review in Harvard Crimson of Æthiop performance at Harvard University |
| Tracks, a new magazine soon to make its debut, will be "a publication aimed at grown-up consumers of popular music," says David Carr in the New York Times. |
| "I would love to party with Pink, and that makes me love her new album. If this sounds like dubious criteria for a critic, it's not. In a pop music landscape littered with boardroom-approved sex kittens and photo-ready rebels -- yes, Pink is all that, too -- the 24-year old singer has an actual personality. She's cheeky and funny and blunt, all of which infuses her third album, 'Try This' (Arista)," wrote Joan Anderman in the Boston Globe of November 11, 2003. |
| "Josh Groban, 'Closer' -- With mentor and producer David Foster by his side, Groban releases his second studio album. The album features his signature European crossover pop songs and operatic tracks, and he is joined by violinist Joshua Bell on 'Mi Mancherai.' The sophomore album features plenty of romance from this talented vocalist."--from article at U-Redlands Daily Facts. |
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| "Velvet-voiced Aled Jones, the most famous Welshman alive, pledged [on 5 November] to warble in the nude at the Sydney Opera House next month if Wales recaptures its 1970s form at the Rugby World Cup in Australia. “'If Wales are in the final then I'll do my Sydney Opera House concert naked,' Jones told Australia's AAP news agency." --from an article at thestar.com.my. |
