Glenn Close sings! well, not really. In her role as soprano Karin Anderson, performing Wagner's TannhSuser in Paris for a TV special, Close is dubbed by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. It's a dangerous liaison; when it comes to lip-syncing, Close is no Milli Vanilli. Rest assured the acting is all hers, though. She hams it up in true diva style, as Anderson bends a huge opera company to her iron will and seduces her married Hungarian conductor, Zoltan Szanto, well played by Niels Arestrup.

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