This summer I’m reading <em>Scènes de la vie de Bohème</em> This summer I’m reading <em>Scènes de la vie de Bohème</em>

Man, I tried so hard to get this commissioned as a radio drama, because I want everyone to know what a ride this book is.

By Armerjacquino June 07, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Telling the world we are not invisible Telling the world we are not invisible

Director Jon M. Chu’s film adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights has come around at exactly the right moment.

By June 14, 2021 at 8:54 AM
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Civilized pleasures Civilized pleasures

We can delight in films that make use of motif to give opera-lovers an extra little jiggle.

By July 18, 2020 at 12:02 PM
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Sophisticated Hades Sophisticated Hades

The sexiest moment on Broadway this season features a 73-year-old man and a single button.

By April 21, 2019 at 4:30 PM
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Stage beauty Stage beauty

>What does a great opera production do, and what does a bad production fail to do?

By November 11, 2016 at 10:00 AM
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The coast of Bohemia The coast of Bohemia

What would you do if I asked you to take a old, faded version of Puccini’s score for La Bohème and fill in the unreadable parts with a mélange of disco, kabarett, and Alban Berg?

By December 01, 2014 at 11:40 AM
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Peace offering

I have to be honest, when I first got this CD from Cieca cara I thought, “What the fuck did I get myself into?”  My assignment was to review the new Naxos recording of Leonard Bernstein‘s Mass. I did this show 10 years ago in school and it was not a happy experience. So, at…

By November 04, 2009 at 5:01 PM
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