David Bonetti
Bio:
David covers fine arts and opera. He was a staff writer for the Saint Louis Post Dispatch and before that the San Francisco Examiner and Boston Phoenix. Now retired he has returned to Boston
Recent Articles:
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B.U.'s Fringe Festival Friend of One-Act Opera Music
Two Offerings This Season, One Old, One New
By: - Oct 16th, 2011B.U.’s Fringe Festival undoubtedly considered it a coup to produce “Three Decembers†and get Heggie to come and give master classes. But if it wants to retain its claim to being a true Fringe Festival it should strive to look for work, vintage and new, that offers more challenges to both audiences and students.
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MFA Goes Contemporary Fine Arts
New Linde Wing Abounds in Surprises, Satisfactions
By: - Sep 19th, 2011Many scoffed that the MFA didn't have any contemporary art. The new installation of the collection proves that the old dame has more than Morris Louis. Bostonians are among the best-educated and most sophisticated people in America and they don’t need to be treated as if they are grade school children when it comes to contemporary art.
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Porgy Gets His Bess at ART Music
Gershwin's Opera Is Moving Musical Theater
By: - Sep 03rd, 2011Fears that ART's Diane Paulus would trash George Gershwin's folk-opera "Porgy and Bess" prove unfounded in vibrant production. Opera or musical theater? Who cares.
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Museum of Fine Arts Goes Contemporary Fine Arts
Linde Family Wing Opens Sept. 17-18
By: - Jul 23rd, 2011The MFA's Fall season this year will be as change-making as last year's. The entire West Wing will be transformed to a contemporary art museum, featuring art from 1970 to the present. In the special exhibition galleries, "Degas and the Nude" should be one of the most important shows of the year internationally.
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Handel's Thrilling Opera Acis and Galatea Music
At the Mahaiwe Great Barrington June 26 & 27
By: - Jun 20th, 2011Lucky residents of the Berkshires “Acis and Galatea†is coming your way with two opportunities to hear it. Be prepared for the singing of a lifetime and to pound your hands together until they’re raw. The BEMF’s production of Handel “pastoral entertainment†– he didn’t call it an opera – was the best I have ever seen.
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Flushing Out The Museum of Fine Arts Fine Arts
Twenty-one Artists Hang work in MFA's Rest Rooms
By: - Jun 16th, 2011In 1971 six local artists hung their work in the MFA's men's room to bring attention to the museum's indifference to local living artists. Does a repeat performance have the same meaning today? The same night that the Bruins won their first Stanley Cup in 40 years a group of Boston artists and critics missed the game. They were reenacting the anniversary of another memorable event.
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The Boston Early Music Festival's Niobe Music
At the Mahaiwe in Great Barrington June 24 and 25
By: - Jun 16th, 2011Sleek early music superstar Philippe Jaroussky stars in operatic rarity as King of Thebes; foxy Amantha Forsythe calls up Joan Collins as his duplicitous wife Niobe. Great singing and staging can't safe dramatically inert work. The opera will be staged at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington on June 24 and 25.
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Boston Early Music Festival Returns Music
Festival Presents 2 Baroque Operas and 15 Concerts Plus More
By: - Jun 07th, 2011Early music groups from around the globe converge on Beantown. Exciting French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky stars in opera centerpiece, "Niobe, Regina di Tebe." Festival reprises 2009 hit, Handel's "Acis and Galatea. Plus more!
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Boston Baroque's Les Indes Galantes Triumphs Music
Amanda Forsythe and Aaron Sheehan Shine as Vocal Soloists
By: - May 10th, 2011Boston Baroque director Martin Pearlman contends that Rameau's music is great enough that a full staging is unnecessary. Well ... However, his crack orchestra, soloists, dancers and conducting chops almost made you believe.
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Maria Padilla at Opera Boston Music
Donizetti Rarity Features Splendid Singing
By: - May 07th, 2011Donizetti's rarely produced opera "Maria Padilla" serves as a showcase for local diva Barbara Quintiliani, who nails the role as if she learned it in the cradle, but its ridiculous plot and Opera Boston's cheesy production prevents it from being an emotionally satisfying evening.
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Boston Lyric Opera's A Midsummer Night's Dream Music
Magic Lost in Misconceived Production
By: - May 02nd, 2011The Boston Lyric Opera presented a musically splendid but dramatically misconceived production of Benjamin Britten's magical Shakespeare adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," So what went wrong at the Shubert Theatre Friday night?
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