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11:57 am EDT   DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER

Dirigent Marc Albrecht
Chorleitung Eberhard Friedrich
Inszenierung Claus Guth
Kostüme und
Bühnenbild Christian Schmidt
Daland Jaakko Ryhänen
Senta Adrienne Dugger
Erik Endrik Wottrich
Mary Uta Priew
Der Steuermann Norbert Ernst
Der Holländer Jukka Rasilainen

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operacast – Bayreuth 2004  12 noon EDT

DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER
Dirigent Marc Albrecht
Chorleitung Eberhard Friedrich
Inszenierung Claus Guth
Kostüme und
Bühnenbild Christian Schmidt
Daland Jaakko Ryhänen
Senta Adrienne Dugger
Erik Endrik Wottrich
Mary Uta Priew
Der Steuermann Norbert Ernst
Der Holländer Jukka Rasilainen

Domingo Wants to Conduct at Festival By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 9:05 a.m. ET July 26th

BERLIN (AP) — Placido Domingo would like to conduct at the Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth. ”I have already sung there, so why should it not be possible to conduct?” Domingo was quoted as saying in an advance copy of Focus news magazine, on newsstands Monday.

The 64-year-old tenor told the magazine he planned to conduct performances in other opera houses of Wagner’s ”Lohengrin” and ”Die Walkuere” before taking on the epic ”Ring des Nibelungen.”

”I am working more and more as a conductor. Why not in Bayreuth, too?” he was quoted as saying.

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Former columnist Susan Lydon dies
By Katherine Pfrommer, STAFF WRITER

from The Oakland Tribune

Susan Gordon Lydon, a founding editor of Rolling Stone and a former Oakland Tribune columnist, died July 15 in Florida after a long battle with cancer. She was 61.

Ms. Lydon was a talented writer who authored three books and contributed to numerous publications over the years, including Ramparts, the Village Voice, the New York Times Magazine and The New York Daily News.

She returned from London's mod scene to a Bay Area in the midst of the cultural revolution in the 1960s. After stops in New York, Minnesota and Boston, she eventually made her way to Oakland.

"My mother was a fierce, powerful and brave woman," said daughter Shuna Lydon of San Francisco. "She lived a life so rich with truth and warmth there are few who do not feel forever in debt to her friendship and companionship."

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