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Article: SAN DIEGO TAKES ON `CONQUISTADOR' CAST BETTER ACTORS THAN OPERA SINGERS.(Entertainment)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- March 4, 1997
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Once afraid of even the scent of new music, the American opera world is now afire with new operas, with audiences riding the high wave of the current vogue as well as impresarios.
To promote and sustain interest, opera companies have been commissioning works that possess contemporary relevance by looking to the mystique and drawing power of celebrities or famous plays or novels: thus, operas on Malcolm X, Richard Nixon, Marilyn Monroe, Harvey Milk and, just this season, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, as well as ``Dangerous Liaisons'' and ``A Streetcar Named Desire,'' to be seen soon in San Francisco.
However, San Diego Opera chose a different and more ...