Entertainment & Arts
“PRIMA VOCE.”
June 24, 1990
Here’s to the ladies who last--aren’t they too much?
Aug. 31, 1988
Robert E.
Dec. 6, 2001
Is it possible that Orange County theatergoers can’t get enough of “South Pacific,” that old musical coconut from Rodgers and Hammerstein about a bunch of Navy nurses and Seabees stuck on a Polynesian island during World War II?
Oct. 22, 1991
Nineteen-ninety was, among other things, the year of the compact disc reissue, with recording companies shedding the last vestiges of fear over the possible rejection by today’s listeners of yesterday’s recorded treasures.
Dec. 23, 1990
Publicist and artists manager Edgar Vincent, who represented tenor Placido Domingo, soprano Beverly Sills and dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov amid a host of A-list singers, conductors and instrumentalists, died Thursday at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York.
July 1, 2008
Italo Tajo, the shimmering secondary star of both comic and dramatic opera for nearly 30 years before starting the opera department at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, has died of heart failure.
March 31, 1993
Television
Richard Eastham, a singer-actor who went from starring on Broadway opposite Mary Martin in “South Pacific” to co-starring in the 1950s TV western “Tombstone Territory,” has died.
July 23, 2005
Rodney Gilfry, the new Don Giovanni at the Music Center Opera, does almost everything right.
Oct. 13, 1994
“RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN: THE SOUND OF AMERICAN MUSIC,” Wednesday 8 p.m. (28) (15)--Teen-agers may be shocked to learn that there’s more to American music than Cyndi Lauper, heavy metal and MTV.
March 17, 1985