Opera (1904)
by Giacomo Puccini
Boston Lyric Opera
Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre, Boston, MA
November 2 – 11, 2012
A pleasant rendition of the Puccini classic, with a wonderful Cio-Cio-San and a stupendous Suzuki.
Holy Motors
Film (2012)
Written and directed by
Leos Carax
Kendall Square Cinema
Cambridge, MA
A French metaphysical adventure of the imagination, a kind of modern, offbeat Divine Comedy, with a protagonist who becomes, through costume and makeup, many wildly different characters.
Beethoven’s Five Sonatas for Cello and Piano: Pieter Wispelwey and Lois Shapiro
Concert
The Complete Cello-Piano Sonatas by Ludwig Van Beethoven
Pieter Wispelwey, cello
Lois Shapiro, piano
Granoff Music Center
Tufts University, Medford, MA
The Other Son
Film (2012)
Directed by Lorraine Lévy
Kendall Square Cinema
A sensitively written account of a mixup of identities between two young men – one, Palestinian, the other, Israeli.
Boston Philharmonic: Prokoviev with Stefan Jackiw, Strauss with Rafael Keizer-Popper, and Sibelius
Concert
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra, Benjamin Zander, Music Director
Sanders Theater, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Repeats, Saturday, 10/27, 8:00pm, Jordan Hall, Boston, MA
Sunday, 10/28, 3:00pm, Sanders Theater
Scintillating and moving renditions of the Prokoviev Violin Concerto No. 2, with former wunderkind, now wunder-young-adult, Stefan Jackiw, and of Strauss’s Don Quixote, with the Philharmonic’s dynamic principal cellist, Rafael Popper-Keizer, and an unfamiliar but interesting Sibelius piece to boot.