Reminding us of the kind of kids’ storybook viewer into which slot circular wheels of film frames, this similar retro feel device likewise features two eyepieces, and indeed two lenses. Where it ...
LOS ANGELES — A train station is an apt location to tell stories of journeys to lands unknown, particularly when the storytelling method is as unconventional and frontier-pushing as the one deployed ...
DAS REHEINGOLD first premiered in Munich in 1869, and the opera has been considered an important cultural phenomenon ever since. Sitting through the two and a half hour, intermission-less production, ...
We're less easily shocked today. But watching Florentine Opera's new production of "Carmen," it's easy to see what startled its Parisian audience when Bizet's opera debuted in 1875. Carmen's brazen ...
Akhnaten is opera as therapy, as cocoon, as mindfulness exercise, clean as Marie Kondo’s living room and every bit as consoling. When you reduce your musical possessions to the barest minimum (hell, ...
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If the heart and soul of New York resides in art and culture, the city’s green lung lies without doubt in Central Park. It is the very place of recreation in which stressed New Yorkers take time out ...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It's not the gilt-detailed craftsmanship or the age of the small, brass, black-enameled binoculars that might fetch a French Quarter antique gallery's asking price of $795,000. It's ...
There’s nothing wrong with making a spectacle of yourself, especially if the spectacle involves “Aida,” the opener for the 65th season of Opera Carolina. Who can resist an evening of shiny head ...
Samson (Clifton Forbis) and Dalila (Olga Borodina) in a scene from the Dallas Opera's production of Samson and Dalila.(Karen Almond / The Dallas Opera) So here we are in troubled Gaza, in Biblical ...
Original producers Dove Attia and Albert Cohen are licensing the rights to the musical that has grossed $100 million in France and played the 4,000-seat Palais des Sports. The pop single-filled album ...