The men running these oil and gas corporations are as bad as street pimps. They are prepared to destroy the lives of others to enrich themselves.
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Despite the rather old-fashioned and too elaborate first act, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a splendid concotion of music and movement and light.
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On account of his disdain for dance, Ioan Holender chose not to include any ballet among the premieres in a book of his time at Staatsoper. For opera fans only.
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In short, drunken idiots leading hideous lives. The pacing was interminably slow. High level of lighting and set design wasted.
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Social documentary and not entertainment or education. A demonstration of the limits of improvisation. Tightly scripted La Maman et La Putaine much better.
Leave a CommentStrangely, the Thomas Convenant series has never been made into a motion picture despite Hollywood’s bottom scraping LOTR lookalikes.
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Superb trumpet play, along with quiet mastery on the guitar. Your ears are there for Paolo Fresu but Ralph Towner makes it all possible.
Leave a CommentNothing newsworthy in Staatsoper’s restaging of Cranko’s classic but if you hit a good cast, Prokofiev’s music and the performers make for a touching evening.
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