Opera Singer Dawn Upshaw Crosses Over to Broadway
Uphsaw has a new recording called "Dawn Upshaw Sings Rodgers and Hart." We'll hear a sample from the CD and an excerpt of an 1994 interview with Upshaw. Monday on Fresh Air, we'll feature Dawn Upshaw in a concert recorded at WHYY. (REBROADCAST)
Other segments from the episode on November 15, 1996
A Sweeping Movie About World War II Survivors
Film critic John Powers reviews the new film "The English Patient," adapted from the acclaimed Michael Ondaatje novel.
Poet and Novelist Michael Ondaatje
Ondaatje won Britian's highest literary prize, the Booker Prize, for his novel set in post World War II, "The English Patient," He was born in Cyelon (now Sri Lanka), emigrated to England, and now lives in Canada. "The English Patient" has been made into a new film. (REBROADCAST from 1/6/94)
Film Director Philip Haas on "Angels and Insects"
Haas's new movie is based on the novella "Morpho Eugenia" by writer A.S. Byatt. It's recently been released on video. Haas made his feature film debut with "The Music of Chance," adapted from a Paul Auster novel. (Rebroacast)
Shakespeare Remains Relevant to Today's Moviegoers
Book Critic Maureen Corrigan considers Shakespeare's re-emergence on the silver screen. Three Shakespeare movies will be out by Christmas.
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Dawn Upshaw Sings Rodgers and Hart
Opera soprano Dawn Upshaw performs a concert with jazz pianist Fred Hersch at WHYY. The program includes highlights from her just-released album "Dawn Upshaw sings Rodgers and Hart," as well selections by Leonard Bernstein, Mark Blitstein and George Gershwin. Upshaw joined the Metropolitan Opera in 1984. Later in the show, Upshaw will be accompanied by a 15-piece orchestra, led by Broadway music director Eric Stern, and singer David Garrison.