“Who’s there?” These are the two words that begin Shakespeare’s Hamlet. It is primarily this question, and not “To be or not to be?” with which Hamlet wrestles throughout the play. The two
The 2020-21 Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcast season continues with a network broadcast premiere:
Anna Netrebko in an all-Puccini gala conducted by
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, a special Met performance from New Year’s Eve, 2019.
The superstar soprano portrayed heroines from three Puccini operas. In Act One of
La Bohème she was the fragile seamstress Mimì opposite tenor
Matthew Polenzani as the poet Rodolfo.
She sang the title character in Act One of
Tosca with tenor
Evgeny Nikitin as Scarpia.
The performance concluded with Act Two of
Turandot, Netrebko’s first appearance as the formidable princess of the title, with Eyvazov as prince Calàf.
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Stories have the power to make us feel less alone, help us better understand the world and curb boredom.
“Four Letter Words: Act One,” a debut novel by Schenectady author Haley Beth Costisick-Unwin, began as a way to keep the latter at bay.
She started writing the book about eight years ago while working at a Piercing Pagoda at ViaPort Rotterdam (or Rotterdam Square mall as it was called then). The business was slow during certain shifts and Costisick-Unwin needed a way to pass the time.
“I would do inventory counts, this and that, talk to any person that would even come near my Piercing Pagoda to say hello,” Costisick-Unwin said. “However, sitting there one day I just decided that I was going to write myself a story because I had a notebook they gave me that morning and I said, ‘Write what you know.’ ”
Iâm embarrassed to admit I really enjoyed The Wedding Singer musical
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Athenaeum Theatre until June 5
It seems I have reached the point in my career where I must publicly confess to enjoying a musical based on
The Wedding Singer. I know. Itâs embarrassing â also a surprise, given I disliked the 1998 romcom starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore.
The late American film critic Roger Ebert was right when he lambasted the movie as a product of a dumbed-down Hollywood which forced audiences âto watch the goofy plots of the 1930s played sincerely, as if they were really deep.â And in that respect, musical theatre does