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Inside the music and life of renowned American composer John Adams.
October 29, 2008
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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.
By Frank Browning
February 28, 2008
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Needy, whiny, goes to extremes, OK -- but is that reason enough to shun me?
By Cary Tennis
February 22, 2008
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In Germany, Wagner is worshiped like a god. His scheming, squabbling descendants are another story.
By Laura Miller
January 15, 2008
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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.
By Farhad Manjoo
December 13, 2007
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Luciano Pavarotti's golden voice was a siren song luring the young and the uninitiated into opera's deep cultural waters.
By Richard Speer
September 6, 2007
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The great Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti is remembered by Vanna White, John McEnroe, Celine Dion, Bono and others.
By Dana Cook
September 6, 2007
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On a snowy winter afternoon there's nothing like the passion of the Metropolitan Opera to remind you of life's daily beauties.
By Garrison Keillor
February 28, 2007
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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?
By Farhad Manjoo
November 21, 2002
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Netscape won't dislodge Internet Explorer from its hegemony over browser space. But its open-source sibling is aiming at even bigger game: Windows.
By Farhad Manjoo
September 10, 2002
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"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?
By Paul Festa
October 11, 2000
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Gluck gave Armide a new life to save opera in the 18th century. The grand sorceress still bewitches.
By Patrick Giles
January 5, 2000
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"La Bohème" again? With a revised text and a fine young cast -- yes.
By Patrick Giles
November 8, 1999
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Armistead Maupin and the San Francisco Opera's Jake Heggie imagine toking transsexual Anna Madrigal as a mezzo-soprano.
By Stacey Kors
August 4, 1999
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Sharps & Flats is a daily music review in Salon Magazine
By Stacey Kors
September 30, 1998
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Move over Microsoft and Netscape -- opera is coming to town.
By Paul Bissex
April 23, 1998
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