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So-called “cord cutting” has cost the industry millions of customers and left them searching for ways to successfully compete.

Stemme wore a dark gown in the first and third acts and a shimmering silver dress in the second, while Skelton, baritone Brian Mulligan (Kurwenal), bass Tareq Nazmi (King Marke) and tenor Freddie Ballentine (Melot) were largely in black, and Cargill (Brangäne) in a lighter-colored costume. Showing sets and complicated directions weren’t necessary, she conveyed Isolde’s emptions with her eyes, smiles and nods. During the great second-act love duet, Stemme and Skelton clinked water canisters.“Twenty-two years ago I could act the young princess that was in love or hated her love for Tristan,” she said. ”I have other colors to my voice now and I’m older so of course this interpretation will change. I feel more at home in the middle range and with age, of course, the top notes are not as gleaming as they used to be, but I can make up for that in other ways hopefully — on a good day.”

Stemme’s future schedule includes less-taxing roles, such as Klytämnestra in Strauss’ “Elektra” and Waltraute in Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung.” She leaves behind an outstanding recording of her Isolde, made from November 2004 through January 2005 at London’s Abbey Road Studios with tenor Plácido Domingo and conductor Antonio Pappano.Anticipation is building for the next great Isolde.is scheduled to make her role debut on Jan. 12 at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu and then open a new production at New York’s Metropolitan Opera on March 9 with Nézet-Séguin.

“She said how happy she is to in a way symbolically pass this role, pass it on to her, in a way through me,” Nézet-Séguin said of Stemme. “That is almost like a torch that has been carried.”After all those Isoldes, Stemme feels more a Puccini heroine than a Wagnerian star.

“At heart,” she said, “I’m still Madama Butterfly or Mimì.”

Celebrity birthdays for the week of June 15-21:Earlier this year actor Sydney Sweeney paid homage to Novak on the Met Gala red carpet. She’s portraying Novak in a new film directed by Colman Domingo about her relationship with Rat Packer Sammy Davis Jr.

Of this latest honor, Novak said she is “deeply touched” to receive the award.“To be recognized for my body of work at this time in my life is a dream come true,” Novak said. “I will treasure every moment I spend in Venice. It will fill my heart with joy.”

The Venice Film Festival runs from Aug. 27 through Sept. 6, but the full slate of films selected won’t be announced until late July. “The Holdovers” filmmaker Alexander Payne will preside over the main competition jury.TULLAHOMA, Tenn. (AP) — Several people were injured Sunday after a skydiving plane crashed outside a small Tennessee airport, authorities said.