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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Phèdre at the National Theatre

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When it seemed that it was impossible to get a ticket to the sold out run of Phèdre at the Lyttelton auditorium of The National Theatre i...
Thursday, July 23, 2009

Un Ballo in Maschera at the ROH

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LONDON, UK -- The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden is having a winning summer season this year. Between performances of Tosca with Bryn T...
Friday, July 03, 2009

Public Enemies

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There are two scenes in Michael Mann 's new film Public Enemies that stand out because of their complexity and interesting points of vi...
Saturday, May 09, 2009

Waiting for Godot is back on Broadway

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The Roundabout Theatre Company has a hit on their hands with a superb production of Samuel Beckett 's masterpiece Waiting for Godot pl...
Sunday, April 05, 2009

An Excellent Elixir (without Villazón)

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Rolando Villazón did not sing the broadcast of Gaetano Donizzeti 's L'Elisir d'Amore at the MET yesterday afternoon. The of...
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Saturday, March 14, 2009

Rehearsing La Sonnambula

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There is a very cute payoff at the end of Mary Zimmerman 's new production of Vincenzo Bellini 's La Sonnambula at The Metropolitan...
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Monday, February 09, 2009

Villazón is Out: Two Wonderful Tenors are In

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The current revival of Lucia di Lammermoor , at the Metropolitan Opera , sold out months ago when subscribers saw that the MET was bringing ...
Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Katharina Wagner's Meistersinger DVD

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Once upon a time, operatic audio recordings would unite the world's greatest singers into make-believe studio productions that introduce...
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Thursday, December 11, 2008

Hans Jürgen Syberberg and I

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A few weeks ago I was invited by Per-Erik Skramstad , the webmaster of Wagneropera.net , to submit my choices for favorite important and inf...
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Saturday, December 06, 2008

Here We Go Again!

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It's Groundhog Day at The Metropolitan Opera -- all over again. Illnesses and tenor replacements in the opera Tristan und Isolde have ...
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Sunday, November 30, 2008

Confessions of a MET insider

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This was sent to me today, and I thought that it would be appropriate to post here. Here is some of the musical backstage drama that occurr...
Saturday, November 29, 2008

Tristan und Isolde und Barenboim at the MET

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The commentary that I hear most often by New York seasoned opera goers is that the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra is a well-oiled machine. ...
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Friday, November 28, 2008

Tonight: Daniel Barenboim at the MET

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When Argentinian-born Israeli pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim leads a world-class orchestra, the performance immediately becomes a h...
Saturday, November 15, 2008

La Damnation de Faust at the MET

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The Metropolitan Opera has not staged La Damnation de Faust since the beginning of the twentieth century (1906); however, this season the ...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Nixon in China comes to the MET

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I was very happy to find out this week that the opera Nixon in China is finally coming to The Metropolitan Opera . John Adams 's first...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Doctor Atomic premieres at the MET

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Doctor Atomic is the third major work for the operatic stage by composer John Adams . It was given its world premiere at the San Francisco...
Monday, October 13, 2008

The NY Film Festival concludes with The Wrestler

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In Darren Aronofsky 's sentimental new film The Wrestler , which closed this year's 46th annual New York Film Festival last night, ...
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Monday, October 06, 2008

Changeling at the New York Film Festival

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Changeling is Clint Eastwood 's 28th feature film. He is the director of such diverse fare as Play Misty for Me , Unforgiven , and Spa...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008

Vicky Cristina Barcelona: latest Woody Allen film

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There was a time when Woody Allen mattered. When one of his new movie came out, you had to see it on the first day (for fear that everyone...
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Saturday, August 16, 2008

HAIR in Central Park

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The Public Theater is ending its summer Shakespare in the Park season at the Delacorte Theater with an awesome production of one of their...
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Vincent Vargas is a retired foreign language and film history teacher from New York City. He runs websites dedicated to Casablanca (www.vincasa.com) and Richard Wagner (www.wagneroperas.com).
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