Amanda Forsythe

December Short Fuses — Materia Critica

December 3, 2022
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Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

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Opera Review: BEMF’s “La storia di Orfeo” — A Musical Triumph

December 5, 2019
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I do not know how BEMF will ever top this. Bravo tutti!

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Concert Review: The Bard in Boston – Part 1

February 2, 2016
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This season’s three-week commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death – the first such thematic series of Andris Nelsons’ BSO directorship – go off to a compelling start.

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Album Review: Bertrand plays Dutilleux and Debussy plus Mendelssohn Symphonies nos. 3 & 4 (Harmonia mundi), and Forsythe sings Handel (Avie)

January 26, 2016
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Three new classical music albums: two are superior, one is a bit of a mixed bag.

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Fuse Opera Review: BEMF Stages Two Delightful Neapolitan Comic Operas

December 4, 2014
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BEMF’s double bill of two short and comic Pergolesi operas made for an unusual and totally delightful presentation.

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