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Most of the opera, however, belonged to soprano Labelle, completely entrancing in the title role of Violetta Valery. After making her debut last year in BLO's Lucia de Lammermoor Labelle was named The Boston Globe 1997 Musician of the Year, and with good reason. Her vocal and stylistic range...
Yes, it is considered Romantic music, but don't expect the opium-filled fun of Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique. The musical elements are too literal to invite creative interpretation and at times it seemed repetitive in its use of musical devices. An overly-dramatic orchestra might have felt compelled to...
The much hyped Meet Joe Black simply confirms our suspicions, giving us more of Pitt's "I-am-beautiful" campaign in an overindulgent $90 million romantic "epic." The film, interestingly enough, is directed by Martin Brest--the same man who in 1992 gave us the charming drama Scent of a...
Dawkins' thesis has integrity. But the proof he offers does not. The whole title of Dawkins' book, Unweaving the Rainbow, alludes to an accusation that the romantic poet, John Keats, once directed at Newton for "unweaving the rainbow by reducing it to its prismatic colors." And so, instead of speaking...
It is clear what Dawkins wants to do. It is unclear, however, why he chose romantic poetry to form the scaffolding for his argument. Dawkins is at his best when he deconstructs science, not poetry. Making the verses of Keats a central motif in the book weakens the rest of...