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Does Obama's baritone give him an edge?
A powerful voice is a "god-given sound," says opera's Lotfi Mansouri. Obama's baritone seems to have that magic. Clinton's higher-pitched voice, not so much.
I'm acting like a monster so my friends are deserting me
Needy, whiny, goes to extremes, OK -- but is that reason enough to shun me?
Dirty, sexy opera
In Germany, Wagner is worshiped like a god. His scheming, squabbling descendants are another story.
Opera's misguided antitrust charges against Microsoft
Reliving the last decade, the Norwegian browser make asks a court to order that Microsoft "unbundle" Internet Explorer from its operating system and comply with Web standards.
Opera's gateway drug
Luciano Pavarotti's golden voice was a siren song luring the young and the uninitiated into opera's deep cultural waters.
"Big in every way"
The great Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti is remembered by Vanna White, John McEnroe, Celine Dion, Bono and others.
Heaven is Renee Fleming's bare shoulder
On a snowy winter afternoon there's nothing like the passion of the Metropolitan Opera to remind you of life's daily beauties.
Microsoft wants your cellphone
The software king has big plans for making the world of mobile phones safe for Windows. Can phone makers, and a little Norwegian company called Opera, stop the onslaught?
Mozilla rising
Netscape won't dislodge Internet Explorer from its hegemony over browser space. But its open-source sibling is aiming at even bigger game: Windows.
Dead man singing
"Dead Man Walking," the opera version, opens in San Francisco. Is it a misguided abuse of the genre -- or a radical reworking of operatic stagecraft?
Sharps & Flats
Gluck gave Armide a new life to save opera in the 18th century. The grand sorceress still bewitches.
Sharps & Flats
"La Bohème" again? With a revised text and a fine young cast -- yes.
Even more "Tales of the City"
Armistead Maupin and the San Francisco Opera's Jake Heggie imagine toking transsexual Anna Madrigal as a mezzo-soprano.
Sharps & Flats
Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
Reviews: The little browser that could
Move over Microsoft and Netscape -- opera is coming to town.
Stravinsky
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