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Reviews by Josmar Lopes
http://josmarlopes.wordpress.com/
Brazilian culture and history (as well as music, opera, the arts), films in general, sci-fi/fantasy/horror films in particular, TV, opera history, reviews and personalities, pop music, pop culture personalities, bossa nova, soccer. I was invited to submit my blog by Emma on Dec 6, 2012.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 426 )
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Stream for Your Supper: After-Dinner Treats with Met Opera on Demand (Part Three...
It's been a long time for listeners to go without live opera. And it may get longer still. Depending on how successful (or not) the United States, the European... Read more
Posted on 14 February 2021 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
Family Time — A Change of Scenery
The month was mid-July, the year 1971. I had just turned seventeen, still thirteen months shy of my high school graduation. Unsure of what to do, unclear as to... Read more
Posted on 30 January 2021 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
Animated Brazil — Part Two: Won’t You Be My Good Neighbor?
Our first post of the New Year picks up where we left off, in that this article is a continuation of my research into animated films and cartoons that depict... Read more
Posted on 18 January 2021 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
Animated Brazil — Part One: Kickin’ the Country Around
I'm strong to the fin-ich / Cause I eats me spin-ach I'm Popeye the Sailor Man Written in 1933 by Samuel "Sammy" Lerner for a seven-minute and thirty-seven... Read more
Posted on 31 December 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
‘I Will Face My Fear’ — The Mind-Killing Little Deaths of ‘Dune’ (Part Three)
Powerful female figures are the themes of the day in the Dune stories. Indeed, the women are the grand plotters and instigators of the winding storyline. To... Read more
Posted on 20 December 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
‘I Will Face My Fear’ — The Mind-Killing Little Deaths of ‘Dune’ (Part Two)
The premise for the science-fiction novel Dune revolves around the manufacture and exploitation of melange. A kind of hallucinatory and highly addictive... Read more
Posted on 05 December 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
‘I Will Face My Fear’ — The Mind-Killing Little Deaths of ‘Dune’ (Part One)
There are many kinds of fear in this world. Fear of failure. Fear of the unknown. Fear of dying, fear of living, fear of making a fool of oneself. Fear of makin... Read more
Posted on 22 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
Mussorgsky in the Raw: The Met’s ‘Boris Godunov’ — An Opera for Our Time
Watching the online streaming of Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov (given at the Metropolitan Opera on October 23, 2010), I was reminded... Read more
Posted on 08 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
Stream for Your Supper: After-Dinner Treats with Met Opera on Demand (Part Two) ...
Continuing from where we left previously off, below are my opinions and reviews of various Metropolitan Opera productions. All are available online via the Met... Read more
Posted on 01 November 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
‘Let It All Go to Hell’: The Brazilian Stars That Brought Sunshine to My Cloudy...
Elis Regina (Photo: last.fm) There are billions of stars in the evening sky But only one can be viewed with the naked eye - The Author The month was mid-July,... Read more
Posted on 19 October 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
‘Let It All Go to Hell’: Brazilian Stars That Brought Sunshine to My Cloudy...
The interval between our first visit to Brazil and the one our family made in July 1971 was, indeed, an historically turbulent one. Censorship, in the form of... Read more
Posted on 27 September 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
‘Let It All Go to Hell’: Brazilians Who Brought Sunshine to My Cloudy Days...
This is a story of my youth. More precisely, a story about what I remember of my youth from the limited times I visited Brazil - and how a song (no, several... Read more
Posted on 13 September 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
Stream for Your Supper: After-Dinner Treats with Met Opera on Demand (Part One)
There's still no live opera to speak of, anywhere or anyplace. Of course, the primary cause for this deficiency can be traced to the coronavirus outbreak.... Read more
Posted on 30 August 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
‘The Godfather’ Parts I and II — “Of Mike and Men”
Today's guest contributor is writer, artist, fanzine publisher, and animator Natalia C. Lopes. A graduate of North Carolina State University's Master's Degree... Read more
Posted on 14 August 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
The Deviant and the Profane — Getting a Grip on Handel’s ‘Agrippina’ at the Met
Baroque opera has little appeal for me. I know, I know. I need to get with the times. And, yes, I am fully aware that those longwinded works from the early 18 t... Read more
Posted on 10 August 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
‘The Grand Budapest Hotel’ (2014) — Last Bastion of Civility
The screwball comedies of the 1930s and 40s were benchmarks for generations of Hollywood filmmakers. Such laudable achievements as those of Preston Surges (... Read more
Posted on 12 July 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
Cancelled! — The Case of the Missing Met Opera Season (Part Three): ‘At-Home...
When last we left the Metropolitan Opera, America's premier repertory company had cancelled the remainder of its 2019-2020 season. As time went by and the... Read more
Posted on 28 June 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ (2013) — A Parable of Class Consciousness
They are highly educated, obviously literate, poetry and music loving British vampires (well, at least we think they're British - and they have the accents to... Read more
Posted on 15 June 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
Somethin’s Happenin’ Here — Songs That Celebrate a Turbulent Time (Part Three):...
We tend to think of life in the 1960s in terms of happier, carefree days. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, they were extraordinarily turbulent... Read more
Posted on 06 June 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
Cancelled! — The Case of the Missing Met Opera Season (Part Two): And Now, Back...
The new production of Wagner's 'Der Fliegende Hollaender' ('The Flying Dutchman') Something I Missed In writing about the Metropolitan Opera's broadcasts of La... Read more
Posted on 24 May 2020 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA