22.2.07

The Bolshoi's Cinderella a Gift of Wit

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I rarely review ballet (too difficult to write, the music too slight to endure), and when I do, I savage it . It is an art-form that is even...
21.2.07

Jasper Johns, Four Themes

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The National Gallery of Art's new exhibit, Jasper Johns: An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965 , takes a focused look at four themes in the...
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20.2.07

NGA American Music Festival, Part 1

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In conjunction with the Jasper Johns exhibit , the National Gallery of Art is hosting its 62nd American Music Festival, over the course of t...

Eugene Onegin Outshines his Colleagues at the MET

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On paper, the Metropolitan Opera’s Eugene Onegin offered one of the strongest casts imaginable these days for Tchaikovsky’s most beloved op...
19.2.07

Cuarteto Casals at Dumbarton Oaks

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Cuarteto Casals, photo by Jo Schwartz When the Cuarteto Casals came to the Library of Congress last year at about this time, we were not a...

The Jenůfa Year Continues

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Jenůfa , directed by David Alden, English National Opera, 2006, photo by Clive Barda The final performance of the Met's production of Le...
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Light Surplants Shadow at Thibaudet Recital

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Jean-Yves Thibaudet ’s piano recital at the Kennedy Center’s Concert Hall was oddly separated into two parts of vastly different quality. Th...
18.2.07

Thomas Adès at Présences Festival

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We are fans of Thomas Adès at Ionarts, after hearing his opera The Tempest in Santa Fe, as well as some of his piano music played by Louis...
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