New York’s flourishing repertory-film scene is getting even more ambitious with the opening, this Friday, of Metrograph, a new two-screen venue on the Lower East Side. The theatre will offer new independent and foreign films along with classic fare, programmed by Jake Perlin and Aliza Ma. The inaugural series, “Surrender to the Screen,” features movies in which moviegoing looms large, including Tsai Ming-liang’s “Goodbye, Dragon Inn,” Peter Bogdanovich’s “The Last Picture Show,” and Brian De Palma’s “Femme Fatale.”
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Metropolitan Opera
Otto Schenk’s 2006 production of Donizetti’s farce “Don Pasquale”—a slapstick affair created and heretofore presented as a showcase for the irresistible charms of Anna Netrebko—provides a vehicle for the company début of the Italian soprano Eleonora Buratto. Joining her in the small ensemble cast are the dazzling bel cantist Javier Camarena…
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The New Yorker (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 7, 2016