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• Review: Caesura: A Butchery (The Plagiarists)

  

  While I appreciate The Plagiarists’ ambition, at a fast-paced intermission-free 90 minutes, Caesura: A Butchery is interesting but exhausting – and has limited... Read more

  The 07 October 2011 by   Chicagotheaterbeat
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• New Blood, and a Rubber Chicken

  

  Il Barbiere di Siviglia returns to the Met. Isabel Leonard (left) looks on as tenor Javier Camarena sings "Cessa di piu' resistere" in Il Barbiere di... Read more

  The 05 October 2011 by   Superconductor
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• Review: Becky Shaw (A Red Orchid Theatre)

  

  A carefully plotted acid bath of a story, A Red Orchid Theatre's 'Becky Shaw' traces the damage of a blind date so torrentially godawful that it ruins the... Read more

  The 04 October 2011 by   Chicagotheaterbeat
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• Opera Review: The Carmen That Almost Wasn't

  

  Bizet opera saved at 11th hour in Philadelphia. Armed and dangerous: Rinat Shaham in the title role of Carmen. Image © 2011 Vancouver Opera/Opera Company of... Read more

  The 03 October 2011 by   Superconductor
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• ‘Rigoletto’ Potpourri: a Tale, Trivia, and a Magical Performance

  

  Editor’s note: All month long, in honor of Verdi’s birthday, we will celebrate all things Verdi on Operatoonity.com. This Golden Operatoonity repost features... Read more

  The 02 October 2011 by   Galegirl
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• Review: Pussy on the House (Hell in a Handbag Productions)

  

  Though at times the rooftop shenanigans wear thin (feeling forced), the pell-mell, helter-skelter, take-no-prisoners daffiness of Ryan Landry's catty script... Read more

  The 01 October 2011 by   Chicagotheaterbeat
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• Opera Review: A Long While in Babylon

  

  Nabucco bows at the Metropolitan Opera. Maria Guleghina as Abagaille. Photo by Marty Sohl, © 2005 The Metropolitan Opera. On Tuesday night, the Metropolitan... Read more

  The 28 September 2011 by   Superconductor
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• Who Are You, New York City Opera?

  

  The 2011-2012 New York City Opera Preview Act III of Jonathan Miller's production of La Traviata from the Glimmerglass Festival. Photo by Richard... Read more

  The 27 September 2011 by   Superconductor
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• Donizetti Operas — ‘Lucia’ Plus Three Score More

  

  Editor’s Note:  Today’s Golden Operatoonity repost is in celebration of the anniversary of the Premiere of  Donizetti ‘s Lucia di Lammermoor, on September... Read more

  The 26 September 2011 by   Galegirl
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• Opera Review: Here Comes the Sun King

  

  Les Arts Florissants revive Atys at BAM. Ed Lyon as Atys (kneeling) mourns the death of Sangaride (Emanuelle de Negri, foreground) as Cybéle (Anna Reinhold)... Read more

  The 22 September 2011 by   Superconductor
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