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New to DVD: Don Carlo from Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Expected release dates are 13 September 2010 for U.K. and 5 October for U.S.
DVD, amazon.co.uk
DVD,
Live From The Royal Opera House -- Verdi: Don Carlo / Villazon; arkivmusic.com
Rolando Villazon (Don Carlo), Marina Poplavskaya (Elisabetta di Valois), Simon Keenlyside (Rodrigo), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Philip II), Sonia Ganassi (Princess Eboli), Pumeza Matshikiza (Tebaldo), Nikola Matisic (Conte di Lerma), Eric Halfvarson (Grand Inquisitor), Robert Lloyd (Monk) & Anita Watson (Voice from Heaven)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano
Performed in Italian translation
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Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship, Hardcover, by Gail Caldwell
Release date August 10, 2010
Hardcover, amazon.com
Kindle, amazon.com
"Caldwell, a Pulitzer Prize winner and former chief book critic for The Boston Globe, met [Caroline] Knapp, a columnist with the Boston Phoenix, in 1996.
"Both women gave up drinking at 33 (Knapp's memoir is titled 'Drinking: A Love Story'); both had to overcome physical challenges in their youth, polio for Caldwell and anorexia for Knapp; both adored dogs and loved the water. Caldwell swam and Knapp rowed, and each taught the other her sport.
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"In addition to honoring Knapp's friendship, Caldwell also discusses her own battle with alcoholism and spends a good bit of time talking about a subject dear to both friends' hearts: dog-training."
--from review by Yvonne Zipp in Christian Science Monitor of August 11, 2010
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The new book Die Oper kocht: Weltstars am Herd: Die Lieblingsrezepte großer Stimmen contains recipes from 64 opera stars and numerous photographs.
And it has a Facebook page!
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