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Monday, April 7, 2014
Soprano debuts in 2 Met Opera roles in 24 hours Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK — Soprano Kristine Opolais has made Metropolitan Opera history, becoming the first singer in its 131 years to debut in two major company roles within 24 hours.
AP Photo/Metropolitan Opera, Marty Sohl
In this photo provided by the Metropolitan Opera, “Perspectives” series host and Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, right, interviews Vittorio Grigolo and Kristine Opolais during the first intermission of the Met’s Live in HD transmission of Puccini’s “La Boheme,” Saturday, April 5, 2014 in New York.
The 34-year-old Latvian soprano sang Cio-Cio-San in Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” on Friday night, went to dinner and got to bed at 5 a.m. Met General Manager Peter Gelb called 2½ hours later, asking if she could replace ailing Anita Hartig as Mimi in a performance of Puccini’s “La Boheme” that was broadcast live to movie theaters around the world Saturday afternoon. Opolais said no, then changed her mind five minutes later and agreed. “I guess it was destiny,” she said later. When the final curtain came down, Opolais covered her face and dropped to her knees to the stage, overcome with emotion during the five-minute ovation. In addition to 4,000 people at the Metropolitan Opera House, her Mimi was seen live by an estimated 92,000 in movie theaters in North America and 110,000 more in 32 nations in Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. “I still think it’s not reality,” she said.
Opolais had not sung Mimi since performances at the Vienna State Opera in April 2013. When the phone first rang, she didn’t answer it. But it kept ringing and ringing and ringing. And when she first spoke to Gelb, she had trouble believing he was serious. “ I wa s i n a shock. The first seconds I couldn’t even speak,” she recalled. “It’s just impossible for anybody.” After she hung up, she started to think. “Some voice inside me said, ‘Why not? It’s a chance, and you just said no. Maybe you should take it?’” she said. Once Opolais agreed, Gelb and
Letterman’s departure will reshape late-night TV Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK — Time doesn’t stop for comedy legends, or superstars of any sort. David Letterman, the pioneering late-night TV host who has announced that he will retire sometime in 2015, had to feel it. Letterman, known for his Top 10 lists, his ironic detachment and his set at the classic Ed Sullivan Theater, suddenly seemed old. That’s been an unanticipated effect of Jimmy Fallon’s fast start replacing Jay Leno on the long-running “Tonight” show the past two months. CBS now faces the challenge of moving on in a reordered late-night world at a time the two Jimmys — NBC’s Fallon, 39, and ABC’s Kimmel, 46, — have a significant head start. When Jay Leno, 63, left in February, Letterman, 66, lost his foil — the man whose victory in the competition to replace legendary host Johnny Carson two decades ago he never let go. Leno was a generational compadre, and when he left, Letterman was alone. Fallon and Kimmel have a different style, more good-natured and less mocking of the entire concept of a talk show.
It’s hard to know what role the new competition played in Letterman’s decision. His last contract extension, signed before Fallon took over, was for one year. In the past, he’s done multi-year extensions. The first time Leno left late-night, Letterman ascended to the throne.
Not this time. Since Fallon began at “Tonight,” his show has averaged 5.2 million viewers, while Letterman has averaged 2.7 million and Kimmel 2.65 million, the Nielsen company said. Last year Letterman averaged 2.9 million and Kimmel 2.5 million, so the direction was clear.
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the Met staff scrambled to bring J. Knighten Smit, the stage director for the revival of Franco Zeffirelli’s 1981 production, to the house for a walk through. Resident costume designer Sylvia Nolan was on the subway when she got an email on the cast change at 9:37 a.m. and went to work to get dresses ready. While Opolais had blonde hair and Mimi refers to “miei capelli bruni (my dark hair)” in the first act, there was no time to make a wig, so the staff decided she should go on stage with her natural locks.
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Signals consistents to black box detected
Planes, ships deployed to investigate AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin
A woman holds an LED candle as she offers prayers during a mass prayer for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Sunday, April 6, 2014. The head of the multinational search for the missing Malaysia airlines jet said that electronic pulses reportedly picked up by a Chinese ship are an encouraging sign but stresses they are not yet verified.
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PERTH - Planes and ships were being diverted Sunday to the area where a Chinese vessel detected signals consistent with a black box beacon in the hunt for missing flight MH370, the search chief said. Australia is coordinating the southern Indian Ocean search for the Malaysia Airlines plane which went missing on March 8 with 239 people on board. “Today Royal Australian Air Force assets will deploy to assist in further examining the acoustic signals in the vicinity of where the Chinese ship has detected the sounds,” said Angus Houston, head
of the Joint Agency Coordination Centre leading the search. “HMS Echo and Australian Defence Vessel Ocean Shield are also being directed to join Haixun 01 as expeditiously as possible to assist with either discounting or confirming the detections.” Houston said the Australian vessel Ocean Shield would be delayed
while it investigated a separate acoustic signal in its current search location that had only been detected in the last hour. “We do not have any detail on the encounter at this stage,” he said. “We just know that there has been an acoustic detection by Ocean Shield which has highly sophisticated equipment and the word I have got is that it is something that needs to be investigated. “I’m not prepared to speculate on what it might be and what it might not be.” The Haixun 01 signal, which lasted for 90 seconds, was picked
up during searches on Saturday. The Chinese ship had already detected a more fleeting signal on Friday, Houston said. He described the development an “important and encouraging lead but one which I urge you to continue to treat carefully”. “We are working in a very big ocean and within a very large search area, and so far since the aircraft went missing we have had very few leads which allow us to narrow the search area,” he said. Houston said the mission was treating both acoustic signals “very seriously” but he said the Haixun 01 detection was the most promis-
ing lead. The retired Australian defence chief also said that corrected satellite data had shifted the focus for the hunt for the missing plane to the southern area of the search, the area that Haixun 01 is operating in. “The whole of the existing search area remains the most likely area that the aircraft entered the water, but based on the new advice the southern area now has a higher priority,” he said. Houston urged caution, saying he did not want to put the families of those onboard the missing flight under further stress.