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Wednesday, March 26, 2014

‘Barber’ and ‘Figaro’ Stick to the Period at McCarter by Zachary Woolfe

Stephen Wadsworth presents two Beaumarchais plays in Princeton, N.J., set solidly in the late 18th century but adapted to help contemporary audiences understand the times.   &…

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Sunday, February 2, 2014

With Renée Fleming, Super Bowl XLVIII Gets an Operatic Opening by Zachary Woolfe

The N.F.L. and Fox deserve credit for thinking outside the usual pop-music box in selecting the opera singer Renée Fleming to perform the national anthem at this year's Super Bowl.

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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Theater Review: Jan Fabre’s ‘Tragedy of a Friendship’ at Montclair State by Zachary Woolfe

In “Tragedy of a Friendship,” Jan Fabre creates a mash-up of Wagner operas, based on his friendship with Nietzsche.    

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Friday, May 3, 2013

Furs, Putin and Music and Ballet, Too, at New Mariinsky Theater Gala by Zachary Woolfe

Valery Gergiev leads a two-and-a-half-hour performance at the Mariinsky II in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Theater Review: ‘I Am an Opera,’ by Joseph Keckler by Zachary Woolfe

“I Am an Opera,” by Joseph Keckler, finds that a bad hallucinogenic mushroom trip can have many side effects. One is opera.    

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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Theater Review: ‘The Hunchback Variations’ at 59E59 Theaters by Zachary Woolfe

In “The Hunchback Variations,” at 59E59 Theaters, a noted composer and a noted hunchback come together to find a solution to Chekhov’s vague stage direction from “The Cherry Orchard.…

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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Calixto Bieito Directs Williams’s ‘Camino Real’ in Chicago by Zachary Woolfe

The Catalan director Calixto Bieito has a reputation for being provocative. American audiences will get a chance to see for themselves with “Camino Real,” at the Goodman in Chicago.

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Monday, August 29, 2011

A Classic That Still Vexes as It Pleases by ZACHARY WOOLFE

Is Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess” an opera or a musical? A Tanglewood production made clear that the work is not a mistake to be fixed but a challenge to be met.

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Just Say Yes to Marriage of Music and Words by Zachary Woolfe

The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players presented the one-act “Trial by Jury” and “G&S à la Carte” Sunday night at Symphony Space.

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