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I’ve never seen Kurt Elling when he wasn’t in fine voice, and this show was no exception.
At first, The Submission comes on as an agreeably edgy satire of the automatic embrace of identity politics and political correctness in the academy and popular culture.
Albatross is terrific — a powerful script, vital performance, and imaginative stage design.
How much longer can these seventy-somethings climb those stairs?
Taken together, it’s a bracing, provocative, and – perhaps above all – fun survey of music for the stage from, for England, the conspicuously abundant 20th century.
Two 20th century gems bracketed the evening, and all four works showed how the ballet idiom can serve and be served by classical music.
Mothers & Sons raises important questions about struggle, acceptance, and love, dramatizing battles that are still being waged.
Why did this version of Far from the Madding Crowd have to be so straight-laced and traditional, so bland and dull?
The collaboration with the mortally ill Ed Pincus, Lucia Small explains, came about from a mutual desire to experiment with documentary form.
Classical Music Commentary: On Andris Nelsons’ First Season in Boston and a Look Ahead at 2015-16
By the end of Andris Nelsons’s inaugural season he had the BSO playing with lots of energy and like they really care, night in and out.
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