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...first time West Side Story has been onstage strictly as a dance work, and the result is an exuberant show that highlights bravura male dancing -- rumble as ritual. It is also an unusual meeting of Broadway and ballet. Robbins personally led rehearsals. Watching as the ballet -- disciplined dancers grappled with an approach to movement that is at once more emphatic and more personal than what they know, he commented, "Dancers I meet keep telling me, 'That play is the reason why I'm in the theater.' It's nice...
Producing an opera is a formidable task evenwith the most ample resources. In tackling twopieces that are musically challenging,dramatically intricate and relatively obscure, theDunster House Opera Society reaps an impressiveharvest. Capped by the bravura performances ofSaccente and Semerjian, Gianni Schicchi andLa Rondine offer an evening of comedy andromance, well-sung and strongly acted
Sometimes the best and most lavish show on Broadway is some 15 blocks north of the theater district, at the Metropolitan Opera House. It is one of the few places in the world that can offer truly grand productions of an art that thrives on bravura and artifice. This season the Met has two such extravaganzas, new productions of Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Verdi's Simon Boccanegra. Both look real enough to step into. Butterfly's fragile cottage is guarded by a line of sentinel iris standing in an authentic Japanese garden. The walls and ceiling of the doge...
Sometimes the best and most lavish show on Broadway is some 15 blocks north of the theater district, at the Metropolitan Opera House. It is one of the few places in the world that can offer truly grand productions of an art that thrives on bravura and artifice. This season the Met has two such extravaganzas, new productions of Puccini's Madama Butterfly and Verdi's Simon Boccanegra. Both look real enough to step into. Butterfly's fragile cottage is guarded by a line of sentinel iris standing in an authentic Japanese garden. The walls and ceiling of the doge...
That feeling of a sure and steady hand is what some have mistaken for complacency. But Clapton takes nothing for granted. You can hear him bend the low-key bravura of It Hurts Me Too into a plea as strong but uninsistent as a prayer. There may be something cosmopolitan about the blues on From the Cradle, but that quality doesn't come from spurious sophistication. It originates, rather, from some wider experience of the world and a consequent deeper sadness. It does not snarl. It whispers, the sound of a hard traveler halfway along a dark road...