SEE BELOW for MORE MAGAZINES' Exclusive, detailed, guaranteed content description!* Careful packaging, Fast shipping, and EVERYTHING is 100% GUARANTEED. TITLE: METROPOLITAN OPERA NEWS (with program) [RARE and interesting magazine and program issued by the Metropolitan Opera Guild.] ISSUE DATE: DECEMBER 2002 VOL. 67, NO. 6 CONDITION: Magazine size: Approx 8OE" X 11". COMPLETE and in VERY GOOD condition.(See photo) IN THIS ISSUE: [Use 'Control F' to search this page. MORE MAGAZINES' exclusive detailed content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date.] This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 COVER: Simon Keenlyside has built an unconventional career on bold repertory choices. Brian Kellow's interview with the baritone begins on page 16. Photographed by Johannes Ifkovits at Friesacber Stadl in Anif near Salzburg Styling by Evelyn MN Jacket by Dobonren; turtleneck by Malo Courtesy Dantendorfer/Salzburg. Issued weekly during the Opera Season and fortnightly in the Spring and Fall by THE METROPOLITAN OPERA GUILD 654 MADISON AVENUE, NEW YORK, N. Y. FEATURES: Articles and full program listings, including photos from the production! TOSCA ESCAPES! F. PAUL DRISCOLL and BETSY MINGO pack a getaway bag for the prima donna. THE POETRY OF RISK Simon Keenlyside comes to Manhattan this month in Trisha Brown's new staging of Schubert's Winterreise. Last summer, BRIAN KELLOW traveled to Salzburg for a conversation with Keenlyside, an artist who does things the hard way -- and thrives on it. SEMPRE FIDELIO PHILIP KENNICOTT looks at the knotty history of Beethoven's only opera, which has endured in the repertory despite its troubled beginnings. A TEAM WITH A VIEW This month's Met premiere of A View from the Bridge is the latest landmark in the practiced creative partnership of composer William Bolcom and librettist Arnold Weinstein. MICHAEL FEINGOLD reports. BRIDGE PLAYER Kim Josephson, longshoreman Eddie Carbone in this month's broadcast of A View from the Bridge, talks to ALAN WAGNER. A QUESTION OF IDENTITY The 1940s and '50s saw the rise of a proud new generation of Jewish artists at the Metropolitan Opera. LEONARD J. LEFT looks at the era when Tucker, Peerce, Peters and Merrill helped to redefine opera stardom. ARE UNSCHOOLED AUDIENCES CHANGING THE FACE OF OPERA? MATTHEW GUREWITSCH asks four American opera administrators whether their programming chokes are influenced by the declining musical I.Q. of their patrons. THE RETURN OF NICHOLAS MAW ARLO MCKINNON discovers why British composer Nicholas Maw, whose opera of William Styron's Sophies Choice bows at Covent Garden this month, has avoided the opera scene for more than two decades. ______ Use 'Control F' to search this page. * NOTE: OUR content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date. This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Careful packaging, Fast shipping, and EVERYTHING is 100% GUARANTEED.