Carmen was the first opera I knew and loved, before its tunes became too familiar and the eager young self dismissed it as unsophisticated. Last night, in the Zeffirelli production first staged at the Met in 1996, I began to rediscover its musical as well as dramatic intelligence. My memory of Don Jose, formed upon […]
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Today’s not particularly critical Critic’s Notebook (“India Resounding in New York”) in The New York Times surveys the overseas South Asian music scene — as every major NYC-centric generalist periodical seems to every seven months or so, whenever some nominally new item prompts re-inventory. The special occasion in this case may be Bombay Dreams on […]
Films seen or re-seen since February ’04: The Jazz Singer (Crosland, 1927) The Dreamers (Bertolucci, 2004) Enthusiasm (Vertov, 1931) The Spanish Earth (Ivens, 1937) Triumph of the Will (Riefenstahl, 1934) Germany Year Zero (Rossellini, 1947) Rules of the Game (Renoir, 1939) Deserter (Pudovkin, 1933) Citizen Kane (Welles, 1941) L’Eclisse (Antonioni, 1962) Ivan the Terrible I […]
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