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• ‘The Queen of Spades’: Unlucky in Love, Lucky in Cards — Tchaikovsky Returns to...

  It's been nearly a decade since the Metropolitan Opera staged Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's penultimate opera The Queen of Spades (or Pikavaya Dama in Russian, a... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• What’s Eating Johnny Depp? The Actor at Age 50: A Mid-Career Retrospective...

  Whether it be a crime family or a makeshift coterie of privateers; whether it involves one spouse married to another, or encompasses a string of failed marriage... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘Star Wars’ — The Original Series (Part Eight): ‘Episode VI, Return of the...

  Star Wars - Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983), the third film in the original three-episode series, completes the cycle started back in 1977. The story has... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• ‘We Talk About Cinema to Talk About Everything Else’: A Look at the Future of...

  (Today's guest contributor is Quebec-born freelance writer Justine Smith. Justine has been writing professionally since 2014 as a film and cultural critic. She... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Mixing the Old with the New (and More): The Met Opera’s 2019-2020 Radio Broadcas...

  I look forward with anticipation to the Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD and Radio Program Guide. It can be found online, if you're interested (here's the link:... Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• What’s Eating Johnny Depp? The Actor at Age 50: A Mid-Career Retrospective...

  When last we left the eclectic Mr. Depp, he was caught up in cocaine smuggling in the 2001 movie Blow. Sent to Otisville Federal Correctional Institute for a... Read more

  Posted on 06 October 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• From the Depths to the Heights and Back Again: Wagner’s ‘Ring’ Winds Its Weary...

  The fourth and final installment by the Metropolitan Opera of Wagner's tetralogy The Ring of the Nibelung concluded on April 27, 2019 with Götterdämmerung... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Leading Man on Fire — A Denzel Washington Primer (Part Six): Much Ado About...

  When you've climbed the highest mountain and scaled the dizziest heights, where do you go from there? And when actors reach the absolute peak of their... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Leading Man on Fire — A Denzel Washington Primer (Part Five): ‘Together We Stand...

  Whether it be on the big screen or small screen, or in the theater, to bring their characters to life actors must be able to draw from personal knowledge and... Read more

  Posted on 11 August 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• From the Depths to the Heights and Back Again: Wagner’s ‘Ring’ Winds Its Weary...

  In Siegfried, the third opera in Wagner's Ring cycle, we return to the realm of gods and monsters; of heroes and villains, myths and legends, dragons and dwarfs... Read more

  Posted on 03 August 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Lost to America — The Unknown Brazilians: Raul Roulien

  Actor, singer, songwriter, composer, screenwriter, and director Raul Roulien was a star in his native Brazil. Born in Rio de Janeiro on October 8, 1905, Raul... Read more

  Posted on 22 July 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• What’s Eating Johnny Depp? The Actor at Age 50: A Mid-Career Retrospective...

  That old proverb about "All work and no play make Jack a dull boy" could never be attributed to our eponymously titled, middle-aged thespian, i.e., the... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• From the Depths to the Heights and Back Again: Wagner’s ‘Ring’ Winds Its Weary...

  The second and most popular opera in the four-part Ring cycle is Die Walküre. It's the most frequently performed outside of the collective works. And why is... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Making Grand Opera Great Again: ‘Samson Et Dalila’ and ‘Aida’ at the Met

  Before we continue with my review of Wagner's Ring cycle, let's take a break from the action and revisit some old favorites. The Metropolitan Opera, in its... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• From the Depths to the Heights and Back Again: Wagner’s ‘Ring’ Winds Its Weary...

  The first scene of Das Rheingold takes place in the Rhine River. As the late comic and raconteur Anna Russell used to introduce this scene, "IN it!" And the... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• From the Depths to the Heights and Back Again: Wagner’s ‘Ring’ Winds Its Weary...

  Wagner's Ring is back. And with a vengeance! On alternating Saturday afternoons, the Metropolitan Opera presented Der Ring des Nibelungen ("The Ring of the... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Of Masters and Their Fate: ‘Don Giovanni’ and ‘Rigoletto’ Are Back in Business a...

  It goes without saying that Verdi worshipped Shakespeare. He also revered Schiller and Hugo, and various other playwrights in between, including several of... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• Operatic Hodgepodge: The Met Opera Presents ‘Adriana Lecouvreur,’ ‘Pelléas,’...

  Opera is such a fascinating subject! Of all the articles I've written throughout the years and posted on my blog, opera happens to be the most frequently... Read more

  Posted on 28 April 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• An Artist’s Life for Me — Ten Motion Pictures That Ask the Question: ‘Does Life...

  The battle for self-expression and the yearning that artists have, within themselves, to place their thoughts, their feelings - indeed, their very soul and bein... Read more

  Posted on 21 April 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA

• The Mythology of Change: Designing and Empowering Voices in Contemporary...

  Today's guest contributor is writer, artist, and animator Natalia C. Lopes. A graduate of North Carolina State University's Master's Degree Program of the... Read more

  Posted on 20 April 2019 CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT, THEATRE & OPERA