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Opera Album Review: A Major German Baroque Opera -- Reinhard ...
artsfuse.org...Reinhard Keiser: Ulysses Bogna Bernagiewicz (Penelope), Francisca Prudencio (Cephalia), Gerald Thompson (Circe), Markus Brutscher (Jupiter), Goetz... ...Philip Koerner (Arpax), Janno Scheller (Neptunus), Jürgen Orelly (Urilas) Goettinger Barockorchester und -chor, cond.... ...Early Music Festival has recently brought back to life: Graupner's Antiochus und Stratonica.... ...Soprano Bogna Bernagiewicz...

Book Review: Writer Thomas Mann -- Still August After All These ...
artsfuse.org...By Matt Hanson How does Thomas Mann's grandiosity hold up today?... ...Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories. Translated by Damion Searls. W.W.Norton (Liverright), 272 pages, $30.... ...(See the Arts Fuse review of Stanley Corngold's The Mind in Exile: Thomas Mann in Princeton.)... ...Mann's garnered some attention recently after New York Review Books published Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man, a collection of essays and speeches...

Jazz Album Review: Ingrid Laubrock's "The Last Quiet Place ...
artsfuse.org...Even then, her musical interests were wide-ranging: on 1997's Let's Call This she performs tunes by Monk, Mingus, Ellington, and Lee Konitz, along... ...Saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock made her first recordings in London in the late "90s. Her first album as a leader was Who Is It?... ...It features violinist Matt Swift, cellist Tomeka Reid, and bass player Michael Formanek: it is a kind of string quartet once guitarist Brandon Seabrook... ...Ingrid Laubrock's new album on Kris Davis's Pyroclastic Records contains six originals....

Notes from (Boston) Underground Part I: BUFF's "The Dunwich ...
artsfuse.org...By Ezra Haber Glenn In order to appreciate this smorgasbord of schlock by independent filmmakers from around New England, it's best to understand... ...The Friday evening crowd-pleaser session of the Boston Underground Film Festival, The Dunwich Horrors, featured eleven horror shorts by independent... ...Miriam Olken's Petunia gave new meaning to the term "animal sacrifice," as a couple of prospective home-buyers (Lorraine Kanyike and Christian Ruiz... ...Director Mike Canale's Christmas Wrapping and Amber Chilton's Pray (starring Beka Barski, accompanied by some excellent composition work by Nate ...

Coming Attractions: March 26 Through April 6 -- What Will Light Your ...
artsfuse.org...As the age of Covid-19 more or less wanes, Arts Fuse critics supply a guide to film, dance, visual art, theater, author readings, and music.... ...Film Park Ji-Min in Return to Seoul. Newcomer Ji-Min Park plays the reserved -- and not always sympathetic -- protagonist with minimal affect.... ...Omar Sharif stars with Julie Christie and the co-stars include Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness, and Tom Courtenay.... ...A scene from Yale Rep's production of Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles. A Medea in Los Angeles by Luis Alfaro. Directed by Laurie Woolery....

Book Review: "The Anniversary" -- A Smart and Entertaining Mystery
artsfuse.org...The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop. Grove Atlantic (Black Cat), 432 pages, $18.... ...By Ed Meek Stephanie Bishop does a great job withholding information and she is also good at tying together the narrative's many loose ends.... ...In A Star is Born, Bradley Cooper nurtures the unknown Lady Gaga until she belts out a few showstopping numbers and upstages him, which tips him... ...The Anniversary is about a woman writer named JB Blackwood who has just found out that she is receiving a prestigious prize for her new novel....

Concert Review: Goose Earns Its Indie-Groove Wings
artsfuse.org...By Paul Robicheau Goose has seen its stock in the jam-band world soar at a pace unseen since? well, Phish. ... ...Rick Mitarotonda of Goose at Roadrunner. Others got in early to hoist microphones in a tapers" section.... ...That band's Trey Anastasio even jammed with Goose from Radio City Music Hall to a co-billed fall arena tour that hit Lowell, sort of like the passing... ..."You looked a little tight out there," Goose keyboardist/guitarist Peter Anspach said before Thursday's encore to the crowd that stuffed the 3,500...

Opera Album Review: A Groundbreaking French Grand Opera ...
artsfuse.org...Meyerbeer: Robert le diable Erin Morley (Isabelle), Amina Edris (Alice), John Osborn (Robert), Nico Darmanin (Raimbaut), Nicolas Courjal (Bertram... ...Bordeaux Aquitaine National Orchestra and Bordeaux Opera Chorus/ Marc Minkowski.... ...singers, including Joan Sutherland, Martina Arroyo, Marilyn Horne, and Plácido Domingo.... ...Edgar Degas, The Ballet from Robert le Diable, 1871....

Children's Books: Indigenous Voices
artsfuse.org...By Cyrisse Jaffee Lindstrom, Carole. We Are Water Protectors. Illustrated by Michaela Goade. Roaring Brook Press, 2020.... ...Illustrated by Gabrielle Grimard. Translated into Plains Cree by Dolores Greyeyes Sand. Orca Book Publishers, 2022. Still This Love Goes On.... ...Told simply but eloquently, this tale was inspired by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's 2016 protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline (and other... ...The illustrator Michaela Goade, of Tlingit descent and globally "enrolled with the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska,"...

Concert Review: Conductor Thomas Adès Takes The Boston ...
artsfuse.org...By Aaron Keebaugh Conductor and composer Thomas Adès brought more of his intriguing music to Symphony Hall this weekend with two selections from... ...Thomas Ade's conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in his Inferno Suite.... ..."The Thieves" romp like a steroid-enhanced union between Liszt and Sousa.... ..."Pavan for the Souls in Limbo" courses in a supple, almost otherworldly dance....