Arts Fuse Editor
Alessandro Stradella’s Loving and Pretending (caa. 1676) gets a lively, precise, and characterful performance in this world-premiere recording.
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What we have here is the voice of one trying to navigate, endure, rise above, and somehow pacify a tapestry of cruelty and grief, while it struggles to find the words and voice that will do the work.
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As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
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Odyssey Opera, and major singers from Ukraine and Russia, bring the great Russian composers’s three one-act operas to Jordan Hall on Sunday, September 25.
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Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. would have been wise to stick to being a conventional mockumentary, a sardonic deconstruction of its target, the megachurch.
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Having just triumphantly ended its sixth and final season, Better Call Saul could be seen as the story of a man who thrives under pressure while he’s gaming the system.
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A valuable reminder that the provinces have their advantages, as the Shelburne Museum devotes lavish attention to a Vermont master.
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Writer Vincent Czyz (and Arts Fuse critic) talks about his wide-ranging essay collection The Secret Adventures of Order.
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The Most Hated Man on the Internet tells a legitimate story in which the good guys win, but there is no attempt to answer to any of the larger, uncomfortable, social questions the series raises.
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Television Review: “The U.S. and the Holocaust” — Vital Questions Left Unanswered
The U.S. and the Holocaust leaves a vital question unanswered: Is this the kind of nation we want to live and worship in?
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