Culture
‘Falling Out of Time’: What it feels like to lose a child
November 4, 2022How would you characterize the work? “It’s not an opera or cantata,” Rechter responded, later adding, “The fact that this is a piece of art is the answer.”
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Film ‘Invisible Flags’ brings attention to domestic violence worldwide
November 4, 2022Art has often been used to make important topics and ideas accessible to the masses. The film Invisible Flags aims to do just that when it comes to intimate partner abuse.
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Dazzling opera about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera premieres in San Diego
November 3, 2022Fifteen years in the making, the new opera is a stunner, gorgeously produced, lovingly performed.
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Mike Davis, acclaimed Marxist activist, journalist, and historian, dies at 76
November 2, 2022Mike Davis was an authentic follower of Marx and Engels who lived his life wedding theory and praxis, enriching the world with his genuine concern and love for working people and their struggles for dignity.
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‘Omar’: Opera about an enslaved Muslim may become a runaway hit
November 1, 2022It’s a story of brutal enslavement in America, told in an accessible manner both in narrative and song. It’s a paean to survival despite hell, the will to live another day.
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