Opera Review
Distress at Sea, and Offstage
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Hundreds assembled near Lincoln Center Plaza on Monday to protest the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “The Death of Klinghoffer,” a raw, penetrating work by John Adams.
Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain discuss “Interstellar”; its director, Christopher Nolan; and the humor of physicists.
Hundreds assembled near Lincoln Center Plaza on Monday to protest the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “The Death of Klinghoffer,” a raw, penetrating work by John Adams.
“After,” Anna Todd’s wildly popular web novel based on Harry Styles of the boy band One Direction, is being published as a book.
At a time when marijuana laws are loosening in the United States, High Times magazine is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a hefty book.
“Nation to Nation,” focusing on treaties, indicates a new, more historically serious direction for exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian.
Kimber Lee’s “Brownsville song (b-side for tray),” at the Claire Tow Theater, explores a teenager’s death.
There were fewer chanteuses onstage at this year’s New York Cabaret Convention than in the past, and a lot more male performers.
Mr. Paulus’s warmly received musical output was prodigious, including 13 operas and some 400 choral works.
Mr. Craft’s hits included “Brother Jukebox” and “Dropkick Me, Jesus.”
Darryl McDaniels, a founding member of Run-DMC, has funded a new comic-book series, DMC, that is put together by a diverse staff, which is reflected in its characters.
Juilliard415 and the Yale Schola Cantorum joined for a little-performed Mass by Jan Dismas Zelenka on Sunday.
Elliott Sharp’s “Port Bou,” a one-man opera about Walter Benjamin, looks at the philosopher as he ended his life.
In a Carnegie Hall concert, Maurizio Pollini’s programming choices showed a change in emphasis and message.
Abdullah Ibrahim, who just turned 80, performs in Carnegie Hall’s Ubuntu: Music and Arts of South Africa festival.
The Fall for Dance Festival closed on Sunday with works by Wayne McGregor, Pontus Lidberg, Aakash Odedra and Frederick Ashton.
The performance aspect of “Live Dancing Archive” shows the fruits of Jennifer Monson’s movement research.
At Danspace Project, Luis Lara Malvacías and collaborators observed an early Halloween with “(T).”
“E-Team,” a documentary, follows the high-risk work of four globe-trotting investigators for the organization Human Rights Watch.
Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski, whose analysis drew praise during the Winter Olympics in Sochi, have earned an expected promotion to the lead team for the sport on the NBC Sports Group.
How to wade through the crush of culture coming your way this season? Here’s a guide to 100 events that have us especially excited, in order of appearance.
This is the world premiere of “Allergic to Water” by Ani DiFranco and “If There’s A Hell Below” by Black Milk.
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