Where to enjoy Handel’s ‘Messiah’ this holiday season
Nov 27, 2024 · Editor's note: This story has been updated with concerts for the 2024 season. Every year around December, the same set of cultural rituals gets repeated, depending on your performing art of choice. For ballet fans it’s “The Nutcracker” that marks the holiday season, for theatergoers it’s “A Christmas Carol,” and for classical music lovers, nothing says Christmas like performances ...
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How Rob Marshall, master of the musical, reimagined Disney’s …
May 21, 2023 · Marshall, 62, a former dancer and choreographer, has as a director become the Vincente Minnelli of our era. And just like Minnelli (“An American in Paris,” “The Band Wagon”) needed the structure and the resources a big studio like MGM could provide to realize his vision in the 1940s and ’50s, Marshall is thriving at Disney, where he …
Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen keeps S.F. Symphony on course in
Oct 5, 2024 · With his signature flair for the theatrical, Shostakovich ups the ante in the concerto’s linked third and fourth movements. As Salonen and the Symphony laid the groundwork for the Passacaglia’s variations, Shoji offered a nostalgic glance, both melodically and temperamentally, back toward the Nocturne.
Review: A surprising and riveting fourth novel closes out Southern ...
Oct 18, 2024 · The Southern Reach Trilogy was a huge success for VanderMeer. But it also, and purposefully so, left many questions unanswered. That is where “Absolution” comes in: It acts first and foremost as a stand-alone, but also as a new way to enter the trilogy.
Review: S.F. Opera taps into the transcendent power of ... - Datebook
Oct 20, 2024 · Review: S.F. Opera taps into the transcendent power of ‘Tristan and Isolde’ Richard Wagner’s epic of love and death comes to glorious life in a dramatically sung production led by Music Director Eun Sun Kim.
This ‘Angels in America’ is the theatrical medicine you need
Oct 14, 2024 · Belize is asking Louis (Dean Linnard) to say the kaddish — the Jewish prayer for the dead — for AIDS sufferer Roy Cohn (Victor Talmadge). Few could hate Roy, his wrongs and his politics more than Louis does, and Louis, an “intensely secular …
Review: ‘Carmen’ returns to S.F. Opera with a top-drawer cast
Nov 17, 2024 · Mezzo-soprano Eve-Maud Hubeaux, making her U.S. debut in the title role, is a tremendously inventive actor, both vocally and physically. Though her instrument is a shade less full and warm than ideal for the part, she compensated with an array of vocal colors on Saturday.
Review: ‘Wicked’ is the best movie musical in years | Datebook
Nov 19, 2024 · You’ll notice “Wicked” does not rely on the quick cuts and digitally enhanced or downplayed vocals of those other movies. “Wicked” shows big groups of people, including the lead actors, dancing in unison while being shot from multiple angles.
Andrea Bocelli on his new album, film and 30 years of making …
Nov 5, 2024 · Andrea Bocelli on his new album, film and 30 years of making music: ‘I like to think to the future’ Bocelli says that his first day onstage feels like yesterday, and that he is grateful to have earned the affection of a global, cross-generational audience.