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Did someone say free opera?

Thumbnail image for Did someone say free opera? by Bryce Lambert March 10, 2010

Don’t miss Opera Hub’s production of the rarely produced “Der Zwerg” this weekend.

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The Docket 2/5-2/9

Thumbnail image for The Docket 2/5-2/9 by Bryce Lambert February 4, 2010

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Whistler in Dark’s production of One Flea Spare opens this weekend @ the Factory Theatre. Tickets $10-$20.
On the last day of their quarantine, a wealthy couple’s house is invaded by two strangers – a sailor and a girl who might not be what she seems. And so another month of quarantine begins. Watched over [...]

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The Docket 1/14-1/20

Thumbnail image for The Docket 1/14-1/20 by Bryce Lambert January 14, 2010

Friday night @ 8:00, Cantata Singers gives a concert at First Church Cambridge, continuing in their season-long celebration of Heinrich Schütz. Also on the program are Harbison and Duruflé. $17-$52, students 50% off, seniors $5 off.

Friday night also marks the start of the Harvard Film Archive’s Alain Resnais retrospective. They’re kicking off with the bizarre [...]

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The Docket 1/8-1/10

Thumbnail image for The Docket 1/8-1/10 by Bryce Lambert January 6, 2010

Friday night at 8:00, Commonwealth Opera stages Così fan tutte, Mozart’s hilarious, spectacular, and often called sexist opera whose title eludes translation, at the Central Square YMCA. Tickets are $30.

Friday night in Jordan at 8:00, Emanuel Ax gives a Celebrity Series piano recital of Schumann and Chopin. Tickets going for $45-$66.

Boston Chamber Music begins its [...]

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The Docket: New Year’s Eve

Thumbnail image for The Docket: New Year’s Eve by Bryce Lambert December 30, 2009

For me, New Year’s Eve was between Boston Baroque’s Mozart and Cimarosa double-bill and the Boston Pops concert with Amanda Palmer, because First Night is kind of for the kids, if I saw Dane Cook I don’t think I’d make it to 2010, and I’m not really interested in pretending I’m a celebrity for a [...]

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The Docket 12/11-12/13

Thumbnail image for The Docket 12/11-12/13 by Bryce Lambert December 10, 2009

The Slutcracker (@ the Somerville Theatre) and The Christmas Revels (@ Sanders) open this weekend. I’ll be checking out both.

The Brattle hosts the local premier of La Danse, a new documentary on the Paris Opera Ballet, Friday @ 7:00, with Director Fred Wiseman in person. (trailer here) Also, a lot of screenings of It’s a [...]

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The Docket 12/04-12/07

Thumbnail image for The Docket 12/04-12/07 by Bryce Lambert December 3, 2009

Plenty of freebies.
The Brattle Theatre celebrates a James Mason Centennial with double features of Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) and Lolita (1962) Friday through Sunday.

The ART continues with the free side of its Shakespeare Exploded festival with a panel discussion on Shakespeare and contemporary culture at the Loeb on Saturday, 11:00 a.m. Panelists include [...]

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The Docket 11/27-11/30

Thumbnail image for The Docket 11/27-11/30 by Bryce Lambert November 26, 2009

The Brattle, in celebration of Julius and Philip Epstein’s 100th birthday, is showing Casablanca Thursday through Sunday. Also a double feature (aren’t we lucky to have the Brattle) on Sunday with The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) and Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). More information.

The Boston Early Music Festival puts on Handel’s chamber opera [...]

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The Docket 11/13-11/15

Thumbnail image for The Docket 11/13-11/15 by Bryce Lambert November 11, 2009

The Radius Ensemble, in residence at MIT, plays at, well, MIT Saturday night. Tickets are only about $10

The Boston Book Fair runs through the weekend.

The BMOP erupts in Jordan Hall Friday nigh with their Big Bang concert. Info here

The MIT Lecture Series shows Annie Hall ($4) and High Fidelity (free) Friday, Saturday, and Sunday night.

Tim [...]

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The Docket 11/6-11/8

Thumbnail image for The Docket 11/6-11/8 by Bryce Lambert November 4, 2009

What are you doing this weekend?

The Osso Quartet makes a stop at Tuft’s Granoff Music Center Friday night as they tour for their new album Run Rabbit Run which has nothing to do with the Updike classic, but is rather an instrumental arrangement of Sufjan Stevens’ Enjoy Your Rabbit (based on the Chinese Zodiac). Tickets [...]

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The Docket 10/28-11/1

Thumbnail image for The Docket 10/28-11/1 by Bryce Lambert October 26, 2009

I’m heading south for a few days, but if I were around I’d check out some of the following.

John Page Conducts the NEC Philharmonia
Sibelius’s Lemminkäinen Suite, Op. 22, “Legends”, Walton’s Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, with soloist Hanna Lee, a student of Kim Kashkashian, and Dvorák’s Symphony No.7.
Wednesday, Oct. 28th, 8:00, Jordan Hall

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