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The contemporary resurgence of the countertenor was on full display in a glorious concert staging of Handel's greatest opera.
Read More »Concert Opera Review: The English Concert, Handel’s ‘Giulio Cesare in Egitto’
Tag Archives: ancient Rome
Theater Review (NYC): Shakespeare’s ‘Coriolanus’ from Red Bull Theater
Sometimes soldiers can only be great killing machines, nothing more, nothing less.
Read More »Board Game Review: ‘Rome: City of Marble’ from R&R Games
Players lay tiles to gather points and be proclaimed Architect of Rome.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Captivity’ by György Spiró
This intensively researched historical novel follows the travels and peripatetic career of a myopic, bookish Jew who travels to great cities of the ancient world and lives through adventures thrilling and horrible that throw light on what life was like two thousand years ago.
Read More »Book Review: Confronting the Classics: A Provocative Tour of What is Happening Now in the Classics by Mary Beard
A fine collection of essays that started life as book reviews.
Read More »Book Review: Lustrum by Robert Harris (Conspirata in the US)
Politics is a lonely, desperate life, that ends only in failure. Something to look forward to!
Read More »Book Review: The Last Ember by Daniel Levin
Young lawyer discovers evidence of a secret plot from ancient Rome to hide a Biblical object.
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