Film Directed by Tom Hooper Starring Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham-Carter, Jennifer Ehle A great little film about a speech problem and its repair. Of course, the one with the defect was about to become a king, amplifying its significance considerably. Who knew that King George VI had a speech problem? I didn’t, but […]
Archives for December 2010
Don Carlo
Opera by Giuseppi Verdi Based on a play by Friedrich Schiller Metropolitan Opera, New York Can the production really be as good as they say it is? Apparently so. Marina Poplavskaya, in the female lead, steals the show. Before seeing this production, I had read such a glowing review in Time magazine that I was […]