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• Hollywood Goes to the Opera – More Cinematic Disparities for Your Viewing...

  

  Back by Popular DemandFeodor Chaliapin Jr. in The Name of the RoseI received so much positive feedback about a previous piece that was posted last year... Read more

  Posted on 14 May 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT

• ‘Sadness Has No End’ – Part Eight: The Greatest Carnival Show on Earth!

  

  Joaozinho Trinta (correiodeuberlandia.com.br)Welcome to Munchkin LandWhere the most recent re-working of Orfeu really came into its own — and where the earlier... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Ray Harryhausen – The Last Voyage of an FX Master

  

  Ray Harryhausen (right) next to MedusaAs I usually do before the workday begins, I clicked on one of my preferred Websites to check out the latest happenings. Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘Star Wars’ – The Original Series: A New Hope for Sci-Fi Cinema, As the Empire...

  

  Strategic Defense Initiative — Oh, Baby! Ronald Reagan (AP Photo)On March 23, 1983, former President Ronald W. Reagan announced, in a major address to the... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT

• Anime, Japanese Cinema’s Second Golden Age: Celebrating a Decade of Progress (an...

  

  By DAVE KEHR First Published: January 20, 2002, by The New York TimesPerfect Blue (reviews.minitokyo.net)(Editor’s Note: This is a reprint of an article that... Read more

  Posted on 05 May 2013 ENTERTAINMENT

• Hold on to Your Light Saber, J.J. Abrams! Here Comes ‘Star Wars: Episodes I, II ...

  

  Star Wars (www.movieweb.com)The year 2013 got off on the right foot – or should we say, the right star cruiser, as is the case with Star Wars. Filmmaker J.J. Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2013 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES

• Live From Lincoln Center: ‘Carousel’ – How We Love This Musical, and Why

  

  Cast of Carousel, with Stephanie Blythe (center)According to Kander and Ebb, life is a cabaret. But with Rodgers and Hammerstein, it’s a lot closer to a... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘Sadness Has No End’ – Part Seven: A Mythical Man for All Seasons

  

  Toni Garrido as Orfeu (screened.com)All This, and Rio Too!All the dramatic weight of Cacá Diegues’ Orfeu production fell onto the shoulders of one Antonio... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Behind the Curtains – Tina Salles, Artistic Coordinator for Möeller & Botelho’s...

  

  Obsessed with schedules and organization, the artistic coordinator of Rio’s major musicals became an expert in creating order out of chaosBy Rafael Teixeira... Read more

  Posted on 19 April 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Brazil Goes Broadway Yet Keeps Its Own Beat – A Timely Reprint of a Timely...

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber is hot there, Stephen Sondheim too. An impresario pair fans the craze with some Buarque here, some Bacharach there. Read more

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

• Salad Bowl Concludes With Spicy Italian Window Dressing: The Met Revives...

  

  Mark Delavan, Robert Brubaker, Marcello Giordani in Act II of Francesca da Rimini (minnesota.publicradio.org)What a strange and fascinating work Riccardo... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Salad Bowl Italian-Opera Style Continues with ‘La Traviata’

  

  Domingo Takes the Lead from Damrau Placido Domingo as Germont (AP Photo/Ken Howard, Met Opera)Continuing with my review of the Verdi bicentennial celebration... Read more

  Posted on 14 April 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• Salad Bowl Italian-Opera Style, from Verdi to Zandonai: ‘Otello,’ ‘Forza,’...

  

  This year marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, the reigning king of Italian opera and the acknowledged grand master of the genre... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Two Thumbs Way Up for Movie Critic Roger Ebert (1942 – 2013)

  

  Roger Ebert (Eileen Ryan)“I read the news today, oh boy” is the first line of the Beatles’ “A Day in the Life,” one of many classic songs from their classic 196... Read more

  Posted on 05 April 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT

• Opera Personalities in Brazil (Part Two) – Politics, the Kiss of Death: A...

  

  Maestro Luiz Fernando Malheiro (www.luizfernandomalheiro.com.br)With major international revivals by a once-neglected Brazilian master, and numerous contemporar... Read more

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

• Buddy Deppenschmidt: The Man Who Drummed the Brazilian Beat into American Ears!

  

  Drummer Buddy Deppenschmidt (center) and Bahian friends, 1961 (Jazz Times)Never print anything in haste – or in anger – I always say. Well, maybe the time... Read more

  Posted on 30 March 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘Parsifal’ and ‘Don Carlo’ – A Celebratory Feast of Wagner and Verdi for the...

  

  Jonas Kaufmann as Parsifal Flower Maidens (Ken Howard / Met Opera)Politics and Religion Don’t Mix – Except at the OperaAs far as genuine religious conviction... Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 CULTURE, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘Parsifal’ and ‘Don Carlo’ – A Celebratory Feast of Wagner and Verdi for the...

  

  Ferruccio Furlanetto as King Philip II (Ken Howard / Met Opera)This was a momentous week for the Catholic Church. With the election of a new pope, Holy Week,... Read more

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

• ‘For All My Days Remaining’ – Sting’s Dark Night of ‘The Soul Cages’ (Conclusion)

  

  Sting’s The Soul CagesMidway PointWe’re at the halfway mark, folks. Intermission time, as they say in the theater. And Sting dutifully obliges by providing an... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘Sadness Has No End’ – Part Six: It’s All About the Music, Isn’t It?

  

  The Best of Both WorldsToni Garrido as OrfeuWith his stirring defense of Cacá Diegues’ Orfeu resonating in the international press, Caetano Veloso... Read more

  Posted on 09 March 2013 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA