Search Results: list of Oesper Award winners by year
This is one of the zippiest, most life-affirming opera recordings I have heard in a long time. Well, this puts it a bit too blandly, because the work’s social satire also targets the smug self-satisfaction and careless cruelty of the powerful.
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Medievalist Marc Morris has written an engaging account of turbulent times in a suitable and interesting style.
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The goal of a panto is to provide amusement, and this one does, its creative performance team scoring with the help of a generous serving of faux-Americana.
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Read MoreLet us hope that today’s revelations will be taken more seriously than charges of sexual harassment and assault were back in 1993.
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Filmmaker Oliver Stone’s memoir is an exhilarating primer for anyone who wants to understand his reputation as a writer and director.
Read MoreFor a reader without the reference points of mid-twentieth century Lithuania and Poland, this deeply researched biography can be a slog.
Read MoreTo their credit, replacing Freddie Mercury is not something his surviving bandmates have ever tried to do.
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Our expert critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music. More offerings will be added as they come in.
Read MoreDespite being a staged reading with scripts still in hand, the members of the Israeli Stage ensemble were already comfortably inhabiting their roles, striking just the right balance between the tragic and comic dimensions of their characters.
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Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2025