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Met's "Die Walküre' in HD-Live Cinema
Wagner, up close and personal
On stage, Wagner's Die Walküre too often comes across as an overwrought spectacle. Thanks to the close-ups provided by video cameras, we can see Walküre for what it really is: an intimate story of personal relationships.
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Paris Picassos at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
The painter who made ugliness beautiful
What Beethoven did for music and James Joyce did for language, Picasso did for art: that is, he brought dissonance into the realm of art.
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Derek Jacobi as "King Lear' in Brooklyn
Old and foolish
No dramatic work rails against the injustice of aging like Shakespeare's King Lear. So imagine the surprise of visiting the Brooklyn Academy of Music this month to find, in Derek Jacobi, a robust and defiant King Lear not at the nadir but at the height of his powers, with an audience laughing and cheering him on.
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Redford's "The Conspirator'
Who killed Abraham Lincoln?
Robert Redford's The Conspirator focuses on the trial of Mary Surratt for conspiracy in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Its real focus, though, is the contemporary War on Terror, and the question that perennially divides us— whether we are to be a society of laws or of men.
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Camerata Ama Deus's all-Handel concert
At home in the Baroque
Like all musical organizations, Valentin Radu's Ama Deus mini-empire has its strengths and weaknesses. But you can be certain you'll get your money's worth when Radu leads his Camerata chamber orchestra through a Baroque period instrument concert.
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Dolce Suono's Mahler/Schoenberg festival
Mahler and Schoenberg in a whole new light
Dolce Suono's live-wire leader, Mimi Stillman, combined a new music mini-festival with memorable performances of two established works while demonstrating, once again, that her talent for creating fascinating programs rivals her abilities as a flutist.
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Dancing across barriers in the Balkans
Miracle in the Balkans: The political power of dance
Can dancers accomplish what diplomats can't— namely, erase the barriers of fear and suspicion stemming from the brutal Bosnian war of the mid-1990s? Ashley Fargnoli, a 27-year-old self-style “dance activist,” demonstrated what can be done just this year.
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Foote's "Dividing the Estate' at People's Light
A slice of dysfunctional Texas life
Horton Foote, a master at capturing the feel of people, place and time— in this case, rural Texas in 1987— is well served in this realistic People's Light production.
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"The Merry Widow' in Wilmington
The good old days (before microphones, even)
After a century, how does Lehár's The Merry Widow hold up? This Wilmington production recalled Broadway's post-World War II golden age, propelled by broad humor, energetic dancing and a blissful absence of mechanical amplification.
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A wordless "Macbeth' in New York
Shakespeare sans inhibitions (or words)
Sleep No More, the bizarre “immersive theater” experience, has emerged as this season's most popular Macbeth. Yet it's performed without any text. What does that say about how to reach audiences today with the classics?
Sleep No More. Punchdrunk production through June 25, 2011 at McKittrick Hotel, 530 West 27th St., New York. playing now through June 25, www.sleepnomorenyc.com.
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