Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Belatedly catching up on the Winter Olympics, especially the figure-skating pair upon which China has been pinning its dreams. After near-misses at three prior Olympics, Shen Xue (31) and Zhao Hongbo (36) finally took the gold Monday—with a new world record. In the flawless clinching of each most critical moment one sensed the poignant history […]
Filed in Asiana, Dance, Love, Music, New York
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Also tagged carnegie, figure skating, Love, mahler, mariss janssons, rco, royal concertgebouw
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
Richard Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier Wednesday, January 6, 2010, 7:30 PM Conductor: Edo de Waart Production: Nathaniel Merrill Stage Director: Robin Guarino Main Cast: Renée Fleming (Marschallin), Susan Graham (Octavian), Kristinn Sigmundsson (Baron Ochs), Christine Schäfer (Sophie), Eric Cutler (Italian tenor). The first twenty people or so who make it into line for the Met’s $20 […]
Filed in Love, Music, New York, Opera, Philosophy
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Also tagged death, der rosenkavalier, dyads, hoffmannsthal, hugo von hoffmannsthal, libretto, Love, marschallin, met, met opera, metropolitan opera, mortality, ochs, octavian, Opera, philosophy of love, renee fleming, richard strauss, romantic, rosenkavalier, strauss, susan graham, tempus fugit
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
Like Last Tango in Paris and Unfaithful, Damage is a film that explores—with punishing severity—the nightmarish consequences of lustful abandon. The acting excels within the category of tense facial tableaux: Jeremy Irons as MP Stephen Fleming, at once wooden and craven, Juliette Binoche’s Anna Barton trancey and transfixing, her gaze by turns pleading and rejecting. […]
Filed in Film, Love, Politics
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Also tagged betrayal, damage, fatalism, jeremy irons, josephine hart, juliette binoche, louis malle, lust, monogamy
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