Culture
Jeanine Tesori’s new opera ‘Grounded’ is a call to moral accountability
November 27, 2024While the opera does not tackle head-on the wars Jess is fighting, it will surely provoke such questioning in the audience—about moral ambiguity at the very least.
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Follies of empire highlighted as ‘Epitafio’ gets its second coming
November 25, 2024Rather than a paean to the costs of settlement, it serves as a cautionary against colonization, a sad reminder of the human costs of such exploitation.
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A brief look at Giacomo Puccini’s social views on his death centennial
November 25, 2024Europe in the mid-19th century witnessed numerous revolutions and upheavals. The Revolutions of 1848, with uprisings in France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Italy, demanded political reform and national self-determination.
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The left out left comes out in Aaron Lecklider’s ‘Love’s Next Meeting’
November 22, 2024This book will certainly move many queer people on the left today and grant to them a new outlook on their position in the present-day left.
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Canada and some masters at Toronto International Film Festival 2024
November 21, 2024TORONTO — Let me close out my coverage of this year’s Toronto International Film Festival by mentioning some important films by outstanding master directors, as well as a look at Canadian cinema that is always a...
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