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Maurice Sendak on ‘Bumble-Ardy’
We’re out this week, but we’re re-posting some of our favorite pieces from 2011 while we’re away. We hope you enjoy—and have a happy New Year! Maurice Sendak. Photo by John Dugdale. Maurice Sendak is...
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Staff Picks: Genet’s Maids, Hockey, and Vivaldi
I recently took out a subscription to National Geographic. I haven’t really looked at the magazine since childhood, and with the very first issue I received a couple months ago, I couldn’t believe I’d...
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Political Theater
The Death of Klinghoffer and grand opera’s political tradition. The Death of Klinghoffer. Photo: Metropolitan Opera Opera is the most pretentious art form of all time, which makes it an easy target for...
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Dark Was the Night
On the Voyager Mission. Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Stage set for Mozart’s Magic Flute, 1815. This summer, we’re introducing a series of new columnists. Up this week is Alison Kinney, whose column, Songs...
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Opera in a Post-Weinstein World
From the Welsh National Opera’s staging of Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande. These days, we hear soloists, ensembles, and choruses of women singing out against abusers. But the courage expressed by...
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