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Leonard (left), Phillips: Beyond male chauvinism. (Photo: Marty Sohl, Metropolitan Opera.)

Levine conducts ‘Così fan tutte’ at the Met

Welcome back, James

James Levine, returning to the Met after a two-year absence, led a performance of Così fan tutte that made us forget the plot’s silliness as we reveled in the music’s subtleties.

Steve Cohen

May 05, 2014 Articles 3 minute read

The Mendelssohn Club premieres Julia Wolfe's 'Anthracite Fields'

A Battle Hymn for the Industrial Revolution

The Mendelssohn Club premieres Julia Wolfe's Anthracite Fields, a hardheaded look at the relationship between the economic progress of the last two centuries and the sacrifices of the economic foot soldiers who made it possible.

Tom Purdom

Apr 30, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

A missed opportunity for transcendence? Kirk Wendell Brown and Peter DeLaurier in the Lantern's “Train Driver.” (Photo by Mark Garvin)

Peter Brook's 'Suit' and Athold Fugard's 'Train Driver'

Apartheid's end

Two different productions look at the effect of apartheid on South Africans, black and white.

Joanna Rotté

Apr 30, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

Mads Mikkelsen in "Hannibal" (Photo by NBC - © 2012 NBCUniversal Media, LLC)

This is my design: The horror of 'Hannibal'

The viewer of Hannibal enters a world where the most horrifying aspects of being a human being are explored. Our bodies are fragile, our minds vulnerable. We are easy prey for a nearly omnipotent devil such as Hannibal Lecter.

Paula Berman

Apr 29, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

The making of artists

In the making of me as an artist, I am asked to become a kind of chimera — a strange fragile creature with shoulders too broad existing in a place that offers no reassurances to soften the disconnect.

Treacy Ziegler

Apr 28, 2014 Articles 5 minute read

Orchestra’s Mozart celebration

Mozart’s odd couple

Two Canadians made an odd (albeit complementary) couple at the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Mozart celebration this weekend.

Dan Rottenberg

Apr 27, 2014 Articles 2 minute read

"Never, never, never, never, never": Lilly Englert as Cordelia and Michael Pennington as Lear in “King Lear”

Michael Pennington's Lear in Brooklyn

An unforgettable Lear and an exemplary life in the theater

Michael Pennington’s elegant, deeply felt Lear — Shakespeare’s most challenging tragic role — is a study in fallibility, vulnerability, and the dignity of a man in defeat.

Carol Rocamora

Apr 26, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

Would working for this man stress you out? (Photo by gohe007, via Flickr/Creative Commons)

Dwaine Tinsley and the vagaries of history

The archduke and the pervert

Finding justice for Dwaine Tinsley: If I was not a writer with my peculiar interests; if I had not practiced workers’ compensation law; if that client had not become disgruntled. . . .

Bob Levin

Apr 24, 2014 Articles 4 minute read

Jean Langlais at the organ of Sainte-Clotilde, 1958.

Jean Langlais: An appreciation

The gems this composer and organist left behind, imbued with a distinctive harmonic language, should not be forgotten.

Michael Lawrence

Apr 22, 2014 Articles 2 minute read

Here comes da flood. (Photo credit: ILM - © MMXIV Paramount Pictures Corporation and Regency Engtertainment [USA], Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’

How did ‘Noah’ offend you? Here are a few suggestions

Darren Aronofsky's Noah has something to offend — or at least disappoint — just about everyone. Why no animals enjoying a turn around the deck, Darren?

Alaina Johns

Apr 22, 2014 Articles 5 minute read