Hints and tips:
...Whether Malibran was in the house that night is speculation on McNally’s part, but he can’t resist setting her up as a proto-Callas to Giulia’s Sutherland....
...This is a cyclical ritual whose raison d’être is barely explained, but whose multiple giant screens allow evil leader Donald Sutherland and the crowds to look on....
...Maria Callas is no goddess to me, so purists who find Master Class, Terrence McNally’s play about her, a desecration will have to go elsewhere for their dose of spleen....
...A moment of quiet horror takes, literally, the characters’ breath away: “It’s stealing some of our atmosphere,” explains Dunst’s science-boffin brother-in-law (Kiefer Sutherland)....
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