The Metropolitan Opera’s recent announcement that it would produce the “The Death of Klinghoffer” led to a nasty, noisy, public debate focused on charges of antisemitism. Some music journalists reveled in the attention and in the moment of relevance for a 400-year-old form. Cambridge critic Rachel Yurman, however, was incensed by the assault, and embarrassed by what she terms the “willful ignorance of those who ranted while freely admitting that they had never seen the work in question.”
Author: Rachel Yurman
Rachel Yurman: Seeing Turner & the Sea at the Peabody Essex Museum
Cambridge’s Rachel Yurman: See Marville Exhibit at Met before it’s gone!
Spending a day out of Cambridge? If you wish you were in Paris but can only make it to New York –– take your dreams to the Met for a morning or afternoon and see “Charles Marville: Photographer of Paris” and “Paris as Muse,: Photography 1840s-1930s,” both (through May 4) and The Passions of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux” (through May 26