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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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‘Pedaço De Mim’ (‘A Little Slice of Me’): Chico Buarque’s ‘Ópera Do Malandro’ &...
A new Brazilian stage production, titled All of Chico Buarque’s Musicals in Ninety Minutes, is set to debut in January 2014, just in time for Chico’s 70th... Read more
Posted on 21 September 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
The Fab Four of Opera: Mozart, Verdi, Wagner & Puccini (Part Four)
Three’s Company, One’s a CrowdUnfinished portrait of Mozart by Josef Lange (1789)Mozart, Verdi, and Wagner – of the three composers discussed so far, the most... Read more
Posted on 11 September 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
Easing Their Pain – The ‘Force’ is Strong with the 501st
The Carolina Garrison of the Fighting 501st Legion of Storm Troopers lends a comforting hand (or light-sabers, in this case) to local children in needDarth... Read more
Posted on 06 September 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
Soccer Field of Fractured Dreams: Brazil 2006 World Cup Debacle (Part One)
Brazil 2013 Confederations Cup Victory (backpagefootball.com)By now, everyone’s probably heard about the Brazilian national team’s lopsided 3-0 victory over... Read more
Posted on 29 August 2013 SPORTS -
‘Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812’ – At ‘War’ with Tolstoy’s Master...
Cast of Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Photo: Loren Wohl)Having spent the last several weeks immersed in Russian author Leo Tolstoy’s literary an... Read more
Posted on 26 August 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
From Verdi’s Violetta to Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (Part Three): Two Fallen Sister...
Family AffairsKeira Knightley as Anna Karenina (moviehole.net)In Leo Tolstoy’s 800-page novel Anna Karenina, the standards of Imperial Russian society in the... Read more
Posted on 24 August 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
‘Star Wars’ – The Original Series (Part Three): A Film Saga by Any Other Name…
What’s in a Name?Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness) businessinsider.comThe characters of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda represent the positive mystical aspects of the... Read more
Posted on 20 August 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT -
From Verdi’s Violetta to Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina (Part Two): Two Fallen Sisters...
Livin’ la Vida LocaGreta Garbo in Camille (1936)As stated in Part One of this post, La Traviata had as its main source the novel and play La Dame aux Camélias b... Read more
Posted on 17 August 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT -
The Real Carmen Miranda Under the Crown of Fruit
By Larry Rohter THE NEW YORK TIMES: ARTS ABROADPublished: December 13, 2001(Editor’s note: Here is another timely article. Although published more than a... Read more
Posted on 10 August 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
The Fab Four of Opera: Mozart, Verdi, Wagner & Puccini (Part Three)
Posted on 09 August 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
‘City of God,’ Ten Years On… and Counting
Alexandre Rodrigues (“Rocket”) in City of God (wall.alphacoders.com)By Donna Bowater, Rio de JaneiroBBC NEWS: Latin America Central AmericaAugust 5, 2013... Read more
Posted on 07 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT -
‘Mad, Mad, the World’s Gone Mad’ – Wagner’s ‘Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg’ as...
Late Nights with LenoAmerican Idol stageSome time ago, I was holed up in a local hospital recovering from minor surgery. Unable to sleep or shut my eyes for... Read more
Posted on 03 August 2013 ENTERTAINMENT -
Sadness Has No End (Part Eleven): All the World’s A Stage… No, Really It Is
“Playing” for TimeBlack Orpheus (filmsquish.com)The most striking thing about the episodes in Orfeu da Conceição is how little they have in common with... Read more
Posted on 03 August 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
How I Taught English in Brazil and Survived to Tell the Story (Part Three)
In this next installment of my series on teaching English in Brazil, I cover some of the more practical aspects of the profession, as well as taking a look at... Read more
Posted on 28 July 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
The Fab Four of Opera: Mozart, Verdi, Wagner & Puccini (Part Two)
Never Trust Your Own Bad PressMozart in his later years (nndb.com)We take it for granted that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was an overindulged, childlike, and... Read more
Posted on 27 July 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
Hollywood Goes to the Opera – More Cinematic Disparities for Your Viewing...
Concluding my previous blog posts about the absurdities of opera singers and opera singing in Tinsel Town (and beyond), below are a few more examples of this... Read more
Posted on 24 July 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
The Gershwin’s ‘Porgy and Bess’ – Classic Opera Or Broadway Musical? It Ain’t...
The Crap Game from Porgy and Bess (nytimes.com)When I last visited New York City in September 2012, I took my youngest daughter with me to see her first Broadwa... Read more
Posted on 22 July 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
From Verdi’s Violetta to Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina: Two Fallen Sisters Under the...
Natalie Dessay in La Traviata (Met Opera)For a birthday present, my daughters gave me tickets to see the Live in HD showing of Verdi’s La Traviata at one of... Read more
Posted on 20 July 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA -
What’s Eating Johnny Depp? The Actor at Age 50: A Mid-Career Retrospective
Johnny Depp at 50 (olsen-twins-news.com)It’s always been my view that birthdays and anniversaries are affairs to be remembered. In fact, my own birthday is... Read more
Posted on 14 July 2013 CELEB, ENTERTAINMENT -
The Fab Four of Opera: Mozart, Verdi, Wagner & Puccini (Part One)
Wagner, Mozart, Verdi Puccini (arcanoartists.com)When people think of “opera,” they usually picture a fat, overweight soprano in Viking headgear, screaming... Read more
Posted on 07 July 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA