Watching Neo-Nazis in Virginia From a German Opera House
A reporter was ruminating on a storied German opera festival’s troubled past, only to learn at intermission that Nazi sympathizers were on the march back home.
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Photo CreditSuzanne Cordeiro/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Taylor Swift Spoke Up. Sexual Assault Survivors Were Listening.
The pop superstar gave blunt testimony in her case against a radio host in Denver, and provided a voice for others in similar situations.
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Photo CreditKarsten Moran for The New York Times Album Review
Review: Grizzly Bear Staves Off Despair With Beauty on ‘Painted Ruins’
The band’s fifth album — its first for a major label — turns more cryptic and voluptuous, and emphasizes its longstanding 1960s and ’70s influences.
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Photo CreditReuters Manchester Arena to Reopen After Terror Attack With Benefit Concert
Noel Gallagher of Oasis will headline a show also featuring the Courteeners, Blossoms and Rick Astley on Sept. 9.
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Critic's Notebook
Photo Credit A Weekend Can Span Centuries at Tanglewood
Our critic’s visit to the Boston Symphony’s home in the Berkshires began with Purcell’s 17th-century “Fairy Queen” and ended with a work from 2015.
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Photo Credit Cue the Carrots! Strike Up the Squash!
The musicians of the Long Island Vegetable Orchestra make their instruments from things that grow in the garden.
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Photo Credit Review: A Funky Rethinking of Schubert’s Winter Journey
Netia Jones’s staging of Hans Zender’s “composed interpretation” at Mostly Mozart added several layers of concept to the song cycle “Winterreise.”
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Critic's Notebook
Photo Credit Finally, a Well-Staged ‘Don Giovanni’ in New York
Ivan Fischer’s version, with his Budapest Festival Orchestra, returns to Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart festival next week after a run in 2011.
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Photo Credit Dell’Arte Opera Offers a Cavalli to Fill a Summer Lull
The company, known for fresh productions of classics, presents the 1651 opera “La Calisto” at La MaMa through Aug. 26.
