David McVicar News
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Joan Collins, the Sundance Film Festival and a new Jason Atherton restaurant are among Muse’s arts and leisure recommendations for London this weekend.
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Louis C.K. is back on HBO with new comedy material, Eric Clapton brings some great guitarists to Madison Square Garden and the “Disappearing Act V” film festival gives you the chance to see the work of European directors.
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Glyndebourne’s hit 2005 production of Handel’s “Giulio Cesare” sailed into the Metropolitan Opera last Thursday, dropping the original Cleopatra and Julius Caesar along the way.
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Social critique and leotards: It’s a surprising mix.
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“Let’s just say, I think this is my time,” Anna Netrebko suggested after her performance in “Anna Bolena” at the Metropolitan Opera’s opening gala last night.
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“Anna Bolena,” Donizetti’s melodious setting of Anne Boleyn’s last moments on earth, opened at the Metropolitan Opera on Monday in a new production featuring Anna Netrebko and two handsome Irish wolfhounds who helped us get through one very tedious scene.
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The deranged hunchback psychiatrist walks over to her father’s portrait and cackles. Then she turns to her patients and reveals the truth of their incarceration.
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“I get so absorbed in my roles, it’s like a drug,” says opera star Jonas Kaufmann . “I have to remember to keep control. I don’t want to end up really killing the soprano. I just want to make it look like it.”
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Soprano Elza van den Heever gave away souvenir locks of her own hair at the Metropolitan Opera’s gala after triumphing as Queen Elizabeth I in a new production of “Maria Stuarda.”
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With more than 200 performers in front of a 1,200-seat auditorium, Glyndebourne ’s “Die Meistersinger” has the highest stage-audience ratio in the company’s history. It makes for an eardrum-rattling show.
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