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Everything That Happened and Would Happen’ and ‘Dido and Aeneas’ Reviews: History and Mortality

The North American premiere of Heiner Goebbels’s deconstructed portrait of the past 120 years; a stripped-down Purcell work performed in a cemetery’s catacombs. A scene from ‘Everything That Happened and Would Happen’ Photo: Stephanie Berger for Park Avenue Armory By Heidi Waleson June 6, 2019 4:22 p.m. ET New York I’m all for recycling, but …

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Everything that happened and will happen

At The Armory — a new candidate for one of the worst five things I’ve seen. I should have seen it coming with the Gertrude Stein quotation at the front of the program. Heiner Goebbels needs to know a bit more about history and philosophy before holding forth. Both elitist and anti-intellectual at the same …

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‘The Ring’ at the Met Review: Rise of the Machine

The Robert Lepage production of Richard Wagner’s epic cycle returned to New York with better results than before. A scene from ‘Götterdämmerung’ Photo: Ken Howard/Met Opera By Heidi Waleson May 13, 2019 3:42 p.m. ET New York The Metropolitan Opera’s Robert Lepage production of Richard Wagner’s “Ring” returned this spring for three complete cycles, concluding …

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El Cimarrón’ and ‘Murasaki’s Moon’ Reviews: Opera in a Temple of Art

At the Metropolitan Museum, the stories of a runaway slave and a shunned author. Martin Bakari as Genji and Kristen Choi as Lady Murasaki in ‘Murasaki’s Moon’ Photo: Stephanie Berger By Heidi Waleson May 20, 2019 4:20 p.m. ET New York The Metropolitan Museum’s MetLiveArts programming has a strong focus on the contemporary. This season, …

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The Ring’ at the Met Review: Rise of the Machine

The Robert Lepage production of Richard Wagner’s epic cycle returned to New York with better results than before. A scene from ‘Götterdämmerung’ Photo: Ken Howard/Met Opera By Heidi Waleson May 13, 2019 3:42 p.m. ET New York The Metropolitan Opera’s Robert Lepage production of Richard Wagner’s “Ring” returned this spring for three complete cycles, concluding …

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