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- <text id=91TT1788>
- <title>
- Aug. 12, 1991: Business Notes:Entertainment
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Aug. 12, 1991 Busybodies & Crybabies
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 49
- Business Notes
- ENTERTAINMENT
- Will Tyson Do The Encores?
- </hdr><body>
- <p> What fan of pay-per-view television duels could resist such
- an event? In this corner, the operatic heavyweight from Modena,
- Italy, Luciano Pavarotti! And in this corner, that Iberian
- emoter, champeen tenor Placido Domingo! The kings of the high
- Cs will head a list of stars on Sept. 23, when a 25th-
- anniversary gala at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City is
- broadcast in a way usually associated with professional
- punch-'em-ups: live pay-per-view television.
- </p>
- <p> The price tag for the home viewer will be as elevated as
- the entertainment--a glass-shattering $34.95. Presenters
- Cablevision, NBC Cable and Polygram are obviously hoping that
- the success of pay-per-view pugilism will be duplicated among
- opera lovers. The gala is described as "the first in a long-term
- agreement" with the Met, which currently presents free PBS opera
- broadcasts.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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