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Tuesday, September 25, 2018

SAMSON ET DALILA: Opening night of the MET

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The years have not been kind to Roberto Alagna 's voice. As a matter of fact, I worry about his career, I think he is all washed up. T...
Saturday, September 08, 2018

The Man of the Hour: CARLOS RAMOS

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Carlos Ramos , the Portuguese tennis umpire, became the man of the hour when he was on the chair for the Serena Williams / Naomi Osaka fi...
Thursday, August 30, 2018

The US Open is in Action, but why isn't the Roof?

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This has been a summer where the heat has plagued events that are close and dear to my heart. My trip to the Bayreuth Festival this year ...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

BlacKkKlansman is the latest from Spike Lee

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An incredible, almost unbelievable real cop story about the infiltration of a backwaters Ku Klux Klan chapter by a rookie black undercover...
Friday, August 17, 2018

Castellucci brings Salome to Salzburg

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Romeo Castellucci is a director of deep, abstract ideas.  His stage productions are abstractions that constantly ask the audience to thin...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

My third PARSIFAL at Bayreuth

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The current production of Parsifal , now in its third year, replaced the Stefan Herheim staging I was lucky to see in 2012. That producti...
Tuesday, August 07, 2018

The New LOHENGRIN at Bayreuth

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The new production of Lohengrin , with sets and costumes by husband-and-wife team of Neo Rauch and Rosa Loy promised the first swan knig...
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Monday, August 06, 2018

Meistersinger 2.0 at Bayreuth

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One of the highlights of last year’s trip to Bayreuth was attending Barrie Kosky ’s new production of Die Meistersin...
Saturday, August 04, 2018

The Flying Dutchman as Light Operetta

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Certainly one of the wonders of Wagner' s Der fliegende Holländer is how close it was to the music of Weber and Meyerbeer .  Although...
Wednesday, August 01, 2018

"Basket of Deplorables" at work

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This was the scene in Tampa, Florida as Jim Acosta from CNN was doing his reporting at one of Donald Trump 's rallies.  The crowd, ...
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Saturday, July 28, 2018

Bayreuth Opens with a new LOHENGRIN

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Remember that line Jeff Goldblum said in the film The Fly , as he was leaving his humanity behind and turning into a hideous monster? ...
Monday, July 09, 2018

PARSIFAL at the Bavarian State Opera

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There is a new production of Parsifal at the Bavarian State Opera . It features a stellar cast of Wagnerians: Jonas Kaufmann in the title...
Friday, July 06, 2018

Piotr Beczała will sing LOHENGRIN at Bayreuth

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Piotr Beczała has accepted the challenge of taking over the title role in the new Bayreuth production of Lohengrin , after Roberto Alagn...
Wednesday, July 04, 2018

Alagna is out of Bayreuth's new LOHENGRIN

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 Roberto Alagna has withdrawn from Richard Wagner ’s Lohengrin at the Bayreuth Festival . The festival announced that the tenor, who was...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom

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Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom is the perfect title to describe the current state of the franchise that started with Michel Crichton '...
Monday, June 25, 2018

PARSIFAL at the Bavarian State Opera

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On June 28, the Bavarian State Opera unveils their new production of Richard Wagner 's Parsifal . The production will be directed ...
Sunday, June 17, 2018

Romeo and Juliet at ABT

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I never get tired of watching Kenneth MacMillan 's brilliant choreography of Sergei Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet . The more I att...
Monday, June 11, 2018

Robert De Niro's F-bomb at the Tony Awards

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Robert De Niro hurled the F-bomb last night at the Tony Awards towards Donald Trump .  CBS, which broadcasted the show live, scrambled to...
Sunday, June 10, 2018

The Band's Visit on Broadway

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The Band's Visit is the musical on everybody's lips as the Tony Awards approaches. At the ceremony tonight, this little gem of a...
Friday, June 08, 2018

Anthony Bourdain (1956-2018)

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Anthony Bourdain (1956-2018) He had a knack for entering the kitchens of far-away countries, and making us feel as if we knew that dist...
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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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