Saturday, February 15, 2020

The 2020-2021 Metropolitan Opera Season announced

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  The 2020-2021 Metropolitan Opera season sounds very exciting. It will open with a new production of Aida . This is a risky move by Ge...
Monday, February 10, 2020

PARASITE wins big -- really big!

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Last night, at the 92nd Oscar ceremony, the film Parasite did something no other film had done in the history of the awards. Bong Joon-ho...
Sunday, February 09, 2020

West Side Story at the Broadway Theatre

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In Ivo Van Hove 's recreation of West Side Story it's not always easy, at first, to tell the Jets from the Sharks. Each gang is ...
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Monday, January 27, 2020

Kobe Bryant - R.I.P.

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Sunday, January 05, 2020

Dracula meets Sherlock meets Who

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Bram Stoker 's novel has been given the BBC Mark Gatiss / Steven Moffat treatment. Their adaptation of Dracula owes less to the aut...
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Saturday, November 30, 2019

Lise Davidsen makes her debut at the MET

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The debut of an important up and coming artist at an opera house is always a reason for celebration. At the Metropolitan Opera , the fable...
Saturday, October 26, 2019

Joaquin Phoenix in JOKER

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That the film Joker , the new Tod Phillips origin story of Batman’s most deranged arch villain, would incite violence in the streets of...
Sunday, September 29, 2019

NYFF: The Irishman - new Martin Scorsese film

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Martin Scorsese 's film career has been graced by landmarks of greatness: Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (19...
Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Plácido Domingo Accussed of Sexual Harrasment

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The term "Latin Lover" assumes certain types of behavior that in today's #Me Too movement can quickly and easily turn into a...
Friday, August 09, 2019

Life on the Moon (?)

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The question as to whether or not there is life on the Moon may finally have a positive answer. A payload of tardigrades, micro animals th...
Thursday, August 08, 2019

The Main Slate of the New York Film Festival

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The Main Slate for the 2019 New York Film Festival has been announced.  Here are the films: Opening Night The Irishman Dir. Martin Sco...
Thursday, August 01, 2019

HAL PRINCE dies at 91

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That picture above represents the way I will always remember Hal Prince , that giant of Broadway, who died yesterday in Iceland at the age...
Monday, July 29, 2019

THE IRISHMAN will open the 2019 NY Film Festival

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The New York Film Festival will open on September 27th with the world premiere of Martin Scorsese 's latest film The Irishman , a bio...
Saturday, July 27, 2019

Spanish Singer Makes Debut at Bayreuth

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Jorge Rodríguez Norton , the tenor from Asturias, Spain made his debut at Bayreuth on Thursday's opening night gala of the new produc...
Friday, July 26, 2019

Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood: new Tarantino film

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With a title that evokes two of director Sergio Leone ’s great films, as well as the world of fairy tales, which imply make believe and wi...
Thursday, July 25, 2019

Bayreuth: New Staging of Tannhäuser

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The Bayreuth Festival began today with a new production of Richard Wagner 's romantic opera Tannhäuser, directed by Tobias Kratzer ...

Bayreuth: New Ring for 2020

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On the eve of the start of the 2019 Bayreuth Festival , festspielchief Katharina Wagner has announced in a press conference that a new ...
Wednesday, July 24, 2019

A Roadmap for Impeachment?

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We are hours away from a day that has been awaited by many on the democratic side of the aisle in Washington D.C. Robert Mueller will tes...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

Bayreuth 2019: All Systems are GO!

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In the spirit of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, all systems are go for the opening of the 2019 Bayreuth Festival , w...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

W.A. Mozart's THE MAGIC FLUTE at the Mostly Mozart Festival

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What a sheer delight is the Barrie Kosky , Suzanne Andrade production of Mozart 's The Magic Flute , with incredible animations by Pa...