On Sunday Saturday afternoon, we checked out the HD simulcast of The Met’s“La Fille du Regiment” at the Walter Reade Theater. And much to our dismay, we caught a glimpse of high-C-flaunting Juan Diego Florez coming out of the Juilliard School’s Meredith Wilson Residence Hall with fiance wife Julia Trappe in tow at around, oh, [...]
LAST WORD REVIEW: Candide @ New York City Opera
Sunday afternoon, The New York City Opera unofficially bid farewell to its landmark Harold Prince production of the invaluable Leonard Bernstein operetta, Candide. It took Mr. Prince’s production, begun at the Chelsea Theater in 1973 and later brought to the New York City Opera by Beverly Sills [...]
Yo yo. So, it’s not usually my style to single out dances for being, well, bad. I usually amp up the bitchiness when something thinks it’s way better than it is. I try not to kick something when it’s down. But after Tuesday night…at The Kirov, it finally occurred to me that there is this [...]
Dance Review: Adrienne Truscott’s “genesis, no!” @ DTW
There are gaps in Adrienne Truscott’s “genesis, no!,” which had a reprise mounting last week at Dance Theater Workshop, having first run at P.S. 122 last spring. The work, a kind of anthropological rumination on human culture, uses theatricality to isolate activities from their real-world, analogous contexts, and [...]
Opera Review: “Tristan und Isolde” @ The Met
The Met’s latest mounting of Dieter Dorn’s 1999 production of “Tristan und Isolde,” Wagner’s insanely genius love-death opera retelling an ancient Celtic myth of star-crossed lovers via some of the most gorgeous—and I mean gorgeous—music ever written for the theater, has met an unusually gratuitous series of challenges [...]
Yo yo! This just came out in the latest issue of The Brooklyn Rail. Am I joining the dark side? Is The Counter Critic going mainstream? Have I gone electric? You can be the judge on this one…
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Review In Ellipsis: Paul Taylor Dance Company @ City Center
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Dance Review: Mark Morris’s “King Arthur” @ New York City Opera
(Photos by Carol Rosegg)
The City Opera has returned from a two-month hiatus with a production to be proud of. Mark Morris’s “King Arthur” (2006), an abstract (and abstracted) opera/dance based on the 17th century collaboration between poet John Dryden and composer Henry Purcell, satisfies as [...]
Opera Review: “Peter Grimes” @ The Met
(Photos by Ken Howard)
Like its central character, Benjamin Britten’s “Peter Grimes” occupies a precarious place in the social consciousness. With its attractive score and mysteriously dark story, the opera evokes the same kind of scrutiny the ambiguously sinister yet psychologically compelling Grimes attracts from the local townspeople; folks don’t [...]
Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company @ City Center
Paul Taylor opened his latest season Thursday night at City Center, a snappy sampler of two dances from the early eighties and one from last year. It was my first encounter with Taylor’s oeuvre, save a few photographs from a book I flipped through one evening at [...]
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