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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

It's Meta Cinema All Over Again

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It if happens once, it's a fluke. But if it happens three times, then we can actually say that a trend has been born in Tinsel Town. I...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Tonight's OSCARS: My Updated Picks

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The Oscars are finally here. I predict the following will be the big winners tonight: BEST PICTURE: "Birdman" BEST ACTOR: Edd...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

The Iceman Cometh at BAM

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Eugene O'Neill , America's greatest and most celebrated playwright, spent the last years of his productive life exorcising the dem...
Sunday, February 01, 2015

Protester at MET Premiere

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A pro-Ukrainian protester jumped on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera last Thursday, and held up a sign equating Vladimir Putin with Ado...

Les Contes d'Hoffmann at the MET

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When they tell the story of the Peter Gelb years at the Metropolitan Opera , and they get down to the new productions that he brought to ...
Monday, January 19, 2015

The Oscars Are Almost Here!

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What an interesting year in movies 2014 was! Once again, the small, indie film is being given a chance to take center stage in this year...
Monday, December 29, 2014

A Smash on VOD: The Interview

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The Interview , out on limited theatrical release and VOD as a result of the Sony Pictures hacking scandal and alleged threats from the g...
Sunday, December 07, 2014

Die Meistersinger is back at the MET

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The Otto Schenk , Günther Schneider-Siemssen production of Richard Wagner 's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is back at the Metropoli...
Friday, December 05, 2014

Birdman

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 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) is a major achievement from Alejandro G. Iñárritu , the director of Amores Perros and ...
Monday, October 20, 2014

The Death of Klinghoffer at the MET tonight

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The Death of Klinghoffer , music by John Adams and the libretto by Alice Goodman is scheduled to premiere at the Metropolitan Opera tonig...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

Verdi's Macbeth at the MET

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The trick with the early operas of Giuseppe Verdi , from the conductor's point of view, is to treat them with the same respect as his ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Roberto Alagna: "I'm going to sing Wagner with Netrebko"

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The rumors are that French tenor Roberto Alagna is discussing a production of Lohengrin at the Bayreuth Festival , with Anna Netrebko ,...
Monday, October 13, 2014

New Ring Cycle for The WNO

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The Washington National Opera announced their complete casting for its first full presentation of Richard Wagner 's Ring Cycle . Thr...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

NY Film Festival: FOXCATCHER

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In an acting tour-de-force, Steve Carell throughout the film Foxcatcher , keeps his head raised at an unnatural, arrogant angle, as if to...
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Friday, October 03, 2014

NY Film Festival: PASOLINI

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On paper, it must have looked like the perfect concept: iconoclast director Abel Ferrara to helm a biopic of Italian Marxist writer, poet...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

NY Film Festival: MAPS TO THE STARS

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Screenwriter Bruce Wagner introduced today's showing of the film Maps to the Stars at the New York Film Festival by warning us that...
Tuesday, September 23, 2014

MET Opening Night: Controversy & Figaro

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If a work of art is deemed controversial, the passage of time will surely erase whatever ills people accuse it of. It happened with W.A. M...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

MET/AGMA Memorandum of Agreement

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A strike at the Metropolitan Opera has been averted as the house management and various unions have agreed to new contract terms. For tho...
Friday, August 22, 2014

Frank Martin and JS Bach Conclude Mostly Mozart

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Louis Langrée put together an interesting concert to end the Mostly Mozart festival at Lincoln Center this weekend. He chose the 1973 pi...
Monday, August 18, 2014

We are Not Ourselves to be Published Tomorrow

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We Are Not Ourselves the powerful first novel by my friend Matthew Thomas is due to hit bookstores all over America tomorrow.  I was luc...
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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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