“Please locate the nearest emergency,” intoned the voice on loudspeaker, sparking the first of many chuckles from Saturday night’s audience at Cal Performances in Berkeley, at the opening of Mark Morris’ latest adventure in opera. Morris gets Handel like no one else gets him: he crafted a towering …
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A great American ballerina will say Farewell to the stage in a few days – but that’s only one reason to catch Oregon Ballet Theatre at the Newmark Theatre in Portland. The company has been dancing with great pizzazz all season, and its latest offering boasts two company …
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Global warming wreaked havoc with the cherry blossoms this week in Washington, D.C.: a hint of spring was banished by freezing winds on the night that American Ballet Theatre opened at the glittering Kennedy Center.
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I have started listening to classical music, I really like it, and I am at a stage where I have a few pieces that I love. But because it is …
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When you show up to ballet class hung-over, under-caffeinated and in a general fog, and there’s a substitute teacher who throws a brand new grand allegro at you in six sets of eight with multiple pirouettes and every second jump battu, sometimes all you can think about is …
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