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Light waves: Boston Ballet's ''All Kylián''
A dead tree hanging upside down overhead, with a spotlight slowly circling it. A piano on stilts on one side of the stage, an ice sculpture's worth of bubble wrap on the other.
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JEFFREY GANTZ
| March 13, 2013
Handel and Haydn's Purcell
Set, rather confusingly, in Mexico and Peru, the 1695 semi-opera The Indian Queen is as contorted in its plot as any real opera.
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JEFFREY GANTZ
| February 04, 2013
Review: Mahler On The Couch
Couch potato
Mahler on the Couch , from the father-and-son directing team of Percy and Felix Adlon, offers some creative speculation, with flashbacks detailing the crisis points of the marriage and snatches from the anguished first movement of Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony.
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JEFFREY GANTZ
| November 27, 2012
The Nutcracker: Building a better mousetrap?
Boston Ballet takes a chance by remaking its most successful production
"Without The Nutcracker , there'd be no ballet in America as we know it."
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JEFFREY GANTZ
| November 19, 2012
No neigh-saying War Horse at the Opera House
War Horse's puppet Joey, all chestnut mesh and cane and repurposed bicycle parts, could become America's biggest equine sensation since Secretariat.
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JEFFREY GANTZ
| October 17, 2012
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company takes on Coriolanus
The body politic
The man of the hour is running for high office, and he has the support of the party faithful and the moneyed interests, but before he can claim victory, he must ingratiate himself with the unwashed masses, even as rival interests conspire to blacken his name and deprive him of all popular appeal.
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JEFFREY GANTZ
| August 08, 2012
Emmanuel Music's B-minor Mass; Lexington Symphony's Debussy and Holst
Celestial voices
Johann Sebastian Bach wasn't the first composer to recycle previous material, but he might have been the first to put together his own greatest-hits album.
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JEFFREY GANTZ
| October 03, 2011
Jordi Savall and the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
Living traditions
"The Celtic Viol" — the title of the Boston Early Music Festival concert Catalan gambist Jordi Savall gave yesterday evening at Jordan Hall — looks like an oxymoron, since Irish and Scottish music is almost by definition traditional and popular and the viol is associated with "serious" early classical music.
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JEFFREY GANTZ
| June 17, 2011
Review: Jig
Sue Bourne's documentary about Irish stepdancing in general and the 2010 Irish Dance World Championships in particular treads a formulaic path.
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JEFFREY GANTZ
| June 16, 2011
The Boston Early Music Festival Exhibition
Crumhorns calling
What with the operas and the big-name visitors and the demonstrations and mini-classes and workshops and symposia and society meetings, to say nothing of the Early Music America Conference and Young Performers Festival, it would be easy to overlook the Boston Early Music Festival's Exhibition.
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JEFFREY GANTZ
| June 17, 2011
Larissa Ponomarenko bows out
End of an era
The bad news — really bad news — this past week is that principal dancer Larissa Ponomarenko is retiring after 18 years with Boston Ballet. (She will, however, be staying on as a ballet master.)
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JEFFREY GANTZ
| May 26, 2011
The BIBC, 'Next Generation,' and more of Boston Ballet's 'Balanchine/Robbins'
Ballet notebook
It's been a busy week and a half. The first ever Boston International Ballet Competition took place May 12-16 at John Hancock Hall, climaxing with a gala awards ceremony and performance last Monday. On Wednesday, at the Opera House, Boston Ballet presented its second annual "Next Generation" performance.
By:
JEFFREY GANTZ
| May 26, 2011
Boston Ballet's 'Balanchine/Robbins'
Mind games
After the frenetic gutbusting of its Elo Experience and "Bella Figura" programs, Boston Ballet is closing out its 2010–2011 season with a breath of classical fresh air — or so it would seem.
By:
JEFFREY GANTZ
| May 26, 2011
Boston Ballet's 'Bella Figura'
Everything is beautiful
"Bella figura" in Italian is more than a phrase — it's a philosophy. It makes life beautiful. "Bella Figura" as the title of Boston Ballet's latest program is an invitation to find beauty in three disparate choreographic styles — one of them incorporating topless women (as well as men).
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JEFFREY GANTZ
| May 02, 2011
Review: Three
A feel-good ending
The 2011 Boston LGBT Film Festival kicks off with what amounts to a classy TV-movie from Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) in which fortysomething Berlin professional couple Hanna (Sophie Rois) and Simon (Sebastian Schipper), both feeling the 20-year itch, fall in love with the same man (Devid Striesow).
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JEFFREY GANTZ
| April 27, 2011
Boston Ballet’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Moonstruck
George Balanchine didn’t create a slew of full-length ballets, but it’s easy to see why a setting of Shakespeare’s ever-popular A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of them — and not just because, back home in St. Petersburg, when he was eight, he played a bug in a theater production of the Bard’s moonbeam-muddled comedy.
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JEFFREY GANTZ
| April 25, 2011
Review: When We Leave
Honor bound
In 2005, at a bus stop in Berlin, Hatun Sürücü, a 23-year-old German of Turkish descent, was shot to death — by her youngest brother.
By:
JEFFREY GANTZ
| March 31, 2011
Boston Ballet's Elo Experience
Moon landing
Moon landing
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JEFFREY GANTZ
| March 28, 2011
Plain Jane
And all the better for it
And all the better for it
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JEFFREY GANTZ
| March 16, 2011
Jane Eyre redux
Cary Fukunaga and Mia Wasikowska hold forth
Jane Austen has been a movie and television icon for some time now, and yet the Jane that both big and small screens just can't get enough of is the "poor, obscure, plain, little" heroine of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel.
By:
JEFFREY GANTZ
| March 18, 2011
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