Tyne Daly News
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Soprano Elza van den Heever gave away souvenir locks of her own hair at the Metropolitan Opera’s gala after triumphing as Queen Elizabeth I in a new production of “Maria Stuarda.”
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Ugly dumpling Maria Callas lost almost a hundred pounds and transformed herself into a beautiful diva. She ditched her dull husband and hooked up with the dangerous Aristotle Onassis, who then abandoned her. Callas died lonely, a recluse. Someone should write an opera about it.
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Terrence McNally’s funny, reverential and wholly engrossing “Master Class” brings us all too briefly into the distinctive orbit of Maria Callas in the twilight of her career, when the soprano called La Divina critiqued young singers before invited audiences of opera students.
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Tyne Daly looks nothing like Maria Callas, despite her overuse of eyeliner. Yet she delivers a completely convincing portrait of the superstar who died heartbroken in Paris in 1977.
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Arthur Laurents, the New York-born laureate storyteller who penned the scripts for “West Side Story” and “Gypsy,” two of the most successful and influential musicals in theater history, has died. He was 93.
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“Once,” a wistful $5.5 million Broadway musical about an Irish man, a Czech woman and their folk music collaboration, received 11 Tony Award nominations today in New York, the most of any show.
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J. Christopher Flowers shared his New Year’s resolution at the Metropolitan Opera’s gala performance of Verdi’s “La Traviata.”
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