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“Puccini meets Pasolini,” by Paul du Quenoy. - The New Criterion
Aug 1, 2024 · by. Paul du Quenoy. On Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca at the Bavarian State Opera, Munich. Tosca is a difficult opera to stage outside of its strictly prescribed time and setting. Based on the French playwright Victorien Sardou’s 1887 play La Tosca, Giacomo Puccini’s opera of love smothered by depravity, which premiered in 1900, is set in three ...
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6 days ago · On Aesop’s fables, James Little, the Shakers, Sibelius, Nikolaus Pevsner & more from the world of culture. November 1, 2024.
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Week in review | The New Criterion
Aug 2, 2024 · Jacob Howland, UnHerd. At the heart of civilization lie separation and distinction: between parent and child, teacher and student, human and animal, human and god. We learn this in Genesis, in which Creation consists in the separation of day and night, heaven and the waters, land and sea, and so on. But the earth was first formless—and, as we ...
The groundbreaking daguerreotype | The New Criterion
Apr 24, 2019 · Robert Becker. On “Monumental Journey: The Daguerreotypes of Girault de Prangey” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Until this spring, the name Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey was hardly known outside a small circle of photography collectors and academics. But it was Girault (1804–92), a quintessential nineteenth-century French ...
“My James Bond,” by David Platzer
Sep 16, 2024 · by. David Platzer. On the sixtieth anniversary of Ian Fleming’s death. August 12, 2024, marked the sixtieth anniversary of Ian Fleming’s death. His creation James Bond entered the world a little more than a decade before he died, with the 1953 publication of Fleming’s taut Casino Royale. The first Bond novel was well-received in Britain ...
The triumph of Thomas Sowell | The New Criterion
In 1930, the year he was born into a black family in Gastonia, North Carolina, the Great Depression was gathering strength. And Jim Crow was in full force, so he seldom encountered white people in his early years. As Riley explains, “He’d been turned away from restaurants and housing because of his skin color.