Guest Conductor Fritz Reiner had had to rehearse while workmen hammered unsympathetically, and his program of Wagner, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff had its rough spots.
One day, 11,374 years ago, a flint-chipper named Og, whose wife had unsympathetically thrown his collection of tiger teeth out of the cave, began giving one tiger tooth to .
When he proclaimed the Second Coming at the World's Fair, he was unsympathetically bundled off to the city hospital for observation, a "purification" he cheerfully endured.
One Way or Another: A mix of standouts and shortcomings, WNO's Destiny pulls accessible entertainment from difficult ... Opera: The funny thing about the Washington National Opera's production of Verdi's The Force of Destiny is that it actually works. Despite an awkward first scene, an unsympathetically trigger-happy hero and some unmitigated plot silliness, director Francesca Zambello's vibrantly dark re-imaging is riveting. Set in a seething 21st century underworld, mood and place are hauntingly evoked in Peter ...
Oct. 17, 2013 - Metro Weekly