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...wrenching dramas, nicely grounded in their characters’ material circumstances, that reward patience: Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Elena, which won the Special Jury prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, and Ursula Meier...
...Waltraud Meier, the sympathetic Santuzza in Cavalleria, sang with her customary gleam and acted with her customary intensity....
...They are supported by Waltraud Meier, Charles Taylor, Nuccia Focile, Alberto Mastromarino, Christopher Maltman, Vasili Ladyuk and Ildikó Komlósi, with Pietro Rizzo conducting....
...Christopher Ventris takes the part of the “blameless fool” who brings salvation, while Waltraud Meier is Kundry, his would-be seducer....
...Waltraud Meier’s Kundry, even with a frayed top, is still unbeatable. Despite sloppy episodes from the orchestra, Hartmut Haenchen’s conducting balances reflection and drama with penetrating skill....
...Perhaps more adventurous than these commercial towers has been the residential work by Richard Meier and others, who have built fashionable apartment buildings in areas not considered fit for human habitation...
...Andrew Meier, a former correspondent for Time Europe, now lives in New York....
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