Upcoming Bolshoi Streaming Productions
By Norm Robins The Bolshoi Ballet and Opera will stream selections from their “Golden Collection” including some of their most
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Editors Picks
Britain’s National Theater Streaming Live on YouTube
Beginning Thursday, April 2nd Britain’s National Theater will stream live and free on their YouTube channel. The first broadcast will be Richard Bean’s One Man Two Guvnors featuring a Tony Award-winning James Corden.
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Sundays at the Bolshoi Ballet—Romeo and Juliette
This Sunday, March 29, 2020, the Bolshoi had planned to telecast the 2020 production of Romeo and Juliette from Moscow. But, like every other theater in God’s creation they will be dark. What to do? How to go on?
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Movies For Shut-ins Paddy Chayefsky’s The Americanization of Emily
On June 4, 1944, the largest amphibious assault in history was launched. Allied forces landed on five beaches of Normandy. They were from the U.S., Britain, Canada, Poland, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, and Norway. It began with a 1200 plane assault. Then 160,000 troops landed from 5000 naval vessels. By August 1944, 2 million allied troops were in France. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky was one of them.
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The Met’s Wagner Week – Continued – March 28 and 29
Arguably this is Wagner’s cheeriest opera – if not his shortest! – and this particular production is a musical and visual delight, full of tuneful songs and lighthearted hijinks. Designed by Otto Schenk with charming traditional sets, it is primarily the touching story of Hans Sachs, a cobbler-poet in 16th century Nürnberg with a heart of gold. Hans is a widower, a dedicated member of the guild of mastersingers and the community’s most trusted inhabitant.
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Met Opera Nightly Free Streaming — Wagner’s Ring
The Met’s second week of Free Nightly Opera Streaming features the entire 2010-11 Ring Cycle on Tuesday through Friday (3/24-27). This uniquely stunning Ring Cycle (Der Ring des Nibelungen) was designed by Robert Lepage and features “the Machine” – a sometimes temperamental, but always spectacular 45-ton behemoth of a set constructed of articulated steel planks that can be elevated, rotated and twisted into gigantic sculptural elements. Incredibly vivid videos projected onto the Machine’s always changing surfaces create a brilliantly animated backdrop and seamlessly move us from the depths of the Rhine, to Brunhilda’s fiery mountain prison, to Siegfried’s enchanted forest and finally to the unraveling of the fabric of time and the downfall of the Gods.
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Movies for Shut-ins Paddy Chayefsky’s The Hospital
Playwright Paddy Chayefsky was a complex man. Born in New York City in 1923, he served in World War II and was awarded a Purple Heart medal after he was wounded by a land mine near Aachen, Germany. Early on he fell in love with television as a medium. He wrote one of his most famous plays, Marty, specifically for TV. His male leads were vulnerable just like him, tortured just like him, and insecure just like him.
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What The Great 1850s New York Horse Manure Problem Can Teach Us About The Great 2020 Coronavirus Problem.
This new virus sprang on us with lightning speed and devastating virulence. We learned about it despite the Chinese Communist Party’s attempt to conceal it. Remember Dr. Li Wenliang, the 34-year-old doctor who warned his colleagues to suit up because this thing is dangerous. He was arrested and jailed for spreading rumors and disrupting the peace (or whatever they call it), both felonies. He died at age 34 in a Wuhan hospital. That’s communism. Kill people or pay any other price. Keep the narrative of happiness and tranquility and economic progress going because to do otherwise is to threaten their hold on power. Mercifully, with the WHO (World Health Organization) and the CDC (Center for Disease Control) breathing down their necks we are giving the Chinese Communist Party no choice but to give us good, valid data…finally.
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A Moment With Amanda Burden, Publisher, and Editor at Edible Reno Tahoe Magazine.
Edible Reno Tahoe Magazine publishes six times a year and covers the local artisan food and spirit community. As you read through the magazine you will find a publication filled with heart and love of good food and the people who take their craft one step beyond the ordinary.
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Maestro Kelly Kuo conducts the Reno Chamber Orchestra
Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, March 14 and 15th, Maestro Kelley Kuo will conduct the Reno Chamber Orchestra in what
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