We know we’ve only been in action since May, but we’ve been toiling away like little Christmas elves to bring you the badest, most awesomest, completely ridiculous critical commentary out there. We’ve laughed, we’ve cried, we’ve tore a few new holes. But mainly, we’ve been genius. So we’re going out in 2007 by honoring the [...]
Double Your Pleasure: New York City Opera Review, “Carmen” (Part II)
Here’s what Sidekick thought… When I was a wee Sidekick, my family wasn’t all that into classical music, and somehow I managed to go thirty years without bumping elbows with any version of George Bizet’s Carmen. My fam did, however, watch a lot of sitcoms. Thus, it was deliciously exciting when the overture started for [...]
Double Your Pleasure: New York City Opera Review, “Carmen” (Part I)
Here’s what Counter Critic thought… Carmen is like heroine. It is no wonder why Nietzsche used this opera to delineate his philosophical split from Wagner. The moment the overture begins, you want to bounce in your seat, tap your toes, sing along. It is full of some of the most memorable musical numbers in the [...]
Double Your Pleasure: Theater Review, Iphigenia 2.0 (Part II)
Here’s what Sidekick thought… Anytime a contemporary writer chooses to screw with a time-honored text, it begs the question, does this retelling say something innovative or is it just fucking with a classic. As a disclaimer when I was a wee sidekick, my favoritist book in the world was a giant volume of classic mythology [...]
Double Your Pleasure: Theater Review, Iphigenia 2.0 (Part I)
Here’s what Counter Critic thought… It’s hard to say exactly what Signature Theater’s production of Charles Mee’s Iphigenia 2.0 is trying to say. In one sense, it attempts, more than most contemporary theater, to address our country’s current pre-occupation with the war in Iraq. At the same time, however, it seems to warn of a [...]
Double Your Pleasure: Opera Review, “Into the Little Hill”
Double Your Pleasure is our new experiment. We sent Counter Critic (Ryan Tracy, a conservatory trained composer, conductor, and all around art freak) and Sidekick (Shari Goldhagen, a novelist and celebrity stalker who doesn’t know shit about classical music) to cover a new opera. Below, we post our critical findings without comparing them. See what [...]
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