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• ‘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

• ‘Götterdämmerung’ At The Met

  

  Goetterdaemmerung – Act II (Ken Howard / Met Opera) Conventionally Speaking… Overlapping duets, an estimable ensemble display, that spine-tingling vengeance... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘Sadness Has No End’ (Part Ten): Requiem for Some Brazilian Heavyweights

  

  Tom Jobim in RioIt’s Not Easy Being GreenAware of the transitory nature of fame in the artistic universe, “The Master” Tom Jobim gave a shout in his later... Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘Star Wars’ – The Original Series (Part Two): War and (Sometimes) Peace

  

  Imperial Battle Cruisers from The Empire Strikes BackAnother Day, Another DirectorThe Star Wars films began their slow galactic ascent into our collective... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Meet Ed Motta — the Real “Music Man” of Brazilian Musical Theater

  

  Ed Motta (multishow.globo.com)What hasn’t musician, composer, singer, jazz-soul aficionado, multi-instrumentalist, and all-around nice guy Ed Motta... Read more

  Posted on 07 June 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘Sadness Has No End’ (Part Nine): The Once & Future Song King

  

  The Hits Keep on ComingTom Jobim (veradasdopensamento)There are no existing records (at least, none that we are aware of) of Carnival taking over the lives of... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘Ópera Do Malandro’ (‘The Street Hustler’s Opera’): What’s It All About, Max...

  

  Cast of Opera do Malandro – Soraya Ravenle, Claudio Lins, Alessandra Maestrini (teatromicaelense.com.br)Words Music: Chico Buarque de Hollanda English Plot... Read more

  Posted on 02 June 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘The Godfather, Part III’ — Come Back, Michael Corleone! All is Forgiven!

  

  Al Pacino as Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part III (play.google.com)More rambling than either of its illustrious predecessors, with new characters... Read more

  Posted on 25 May 2013 ENTERTAINMENT

• ‘Die Walküre’ at the Met: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Opera

  

  Ride of the Valkyries (Ken Howard / Met Opera)A Tale of Two TenorsI did not yet discuss the Ring cycle’s plot or story line – and there’s good reason for that.... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Two Brazilian Charmers – Part Six: The Nightingale Flies Away

  

  A Shock to the SystemBidu Sayao (www.lightstalkers.org)Carmen Miranda’s shocking end and tumultuous Rio de Janeiro funeral produced a staggering outpouring of... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘Das Rheingold,’ ‘Die Walküre,’ and ‘Götterdämmerung’ at the Met: Three...

  

  Das Rheingold — Descent into Nibelheim (nytimes.com)It took composer Richard Wagner more than a third of his adult life to bring his monumental music drama,... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA