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The 'Ring' Cycle Ends, Disappoints

AP | MIKE SILVERMAN | Posted 03.29.2012

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NEW YORK — Sometimes less is more, and sometimes it's just ... less. That was the mixed verdict as Robert Lepage brought his high-tech producti...

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The Ring Cycle Is Coming

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 03.11.2012

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WASHINGTON — Washington National Opera, which recently merged with the Kennedy Center after struggling financially for years, announced an ambit...

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Melancholia on Zoloft or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Appreciate Lars von Trier

Melody Breyer-Grell | Posted 02.06.2012

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Melody Breyer-Grell

Since taking Zoloft (can I say that?), my perceptions of existence have altered somewhat from seeing things in black and white to shades of gray: "Hey, this guy might be onto something."

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New Archive Gives Insight Into Hitler's Taste In Art

ARTINFO | Posted 01.29.2012

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Richard Wagner was his favorite composer and Arno Breker his official house sculptor -- but Adolf Hitler's taste in art was surprisingly broad -- and gaudy -- judging by a vast archive of some 11,000 Nazi-era exhibition installation photos now published online for the first time.

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Astoria Characters: The Svelte Soprano

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 12.18.2011

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Nancy Ruhling

Even when she's not on stage, Jenny, a Valkyrie whose waves of golden ringlets cascade down her shoulders, has quite a stage presence. Runway-model slim, she stands nearly six feet tall in her flat gold sandals.

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Gold in San Francisco

Howard Kissel | Posted 08.23.2011

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Howard Kissel

I am not an ardent Wagnerite. Nor am I a fan of Francsca Zambella, who has directed a Ring Cycle for the San Francisco Opera. But how often do you find yourself in a place where they're doing "Rheingold"?

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'Tis a Pity She's No Longer a Whore -- Times Square Cultural Armageddon

Melody Breyer-Grell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Melody Breyer-Grell

And they said things were bad in the 70's. The dirt, the porno shops, the Disco. All that is now a fond memory for many New Yorkers who gamely braved that bit of Hades to attend a real Broadway musical.

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A Touch of Irony in LA Opera's Final "Ring" Entry

Donna Perlmutter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Donna Perlmutter

When Achim Freyer and the Los Angeles Opera unveiled their final Ring entry, Götterdämmerung, there was more than a hint of Wagner's capacity for irony.

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Inside LA Opera's $32-Million Ring Cycle Gamble

latimes.com | Mike Boehm >>> | Posted 05.25.2011

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In Richard Wagner's "The Ring of the Nibelung," a pile of sacred gold and a ring that's fashioned from it are said to confer "measureless might." Howe...

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Domingo Discloses Season in Spite of LA Opera's Congestive Heart Failure

Carol Jean Delmar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Carol Jean Delmar

Although music critics never cease to be amazed at the longevity of Placido Domingo's vocal apparatus, they are now critical of his management of LA Opera and Washington National Opera, which are both in financial disarray.

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Review: Watchmen (2009)

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scott Mendelson

The production is handsome, the acting is exceptional, and the special effects are mostly effective. But, at the end of the day, Watchmen is not an exciting story.

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'Katrina' Pastor Promotion Rescinded By Pope

AP | ALESSANDRA RIZZO | Posted 05.25.2011

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VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI on Monday formally rescinded the promotion of an ultraconservative priest who came under fire for suggesting th...

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Watchmen: Who's Watching The Watchmen?

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mike Ragogna

Based on one of the most collected and memorable comic book runs in history, the movie Watchmen tries to be all things cosmic and ambiguously moral to all of us.

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