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Showing posts with label German. Show all posts
Showing posts with label German. Show all posts
Monday, 12 April 2021

Neo-Victorian Voices: Melnitz, Charles Lewinsky (2006), trans. Shaun Whiteside (2015)

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I’m cheating a little with this one. My Neo-Victorian Voices series typically covers books written in the twenty-first century, and set in ...
Sunday, 24 June 2018

The Origins of Coppelia

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A few weeks ago the Secret Victorianist was back at the New York City Ballet (see my thoughts on the NYCB’s Nutcracker here ) for a produc...
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Sunday, 18 December 2016

10 thoughts I had watching The Nutcracker as an adult

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With Christmas just around the corner, the Secret Victorianist went to Lincoln Center this week for the New York City Ballet’s p...
Sunday, 11 December 2016

Salome, Wilde and Strauss

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Wilde complained to me one day that someone in a well-known novel had stolen an idea of his. I pleaded in defence of the culprit that Wilde...
Sunday, 28 February 2016

Art Review: Munch and Expressionism, Neue Galerie, New York City

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Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is one of those artists whose works, at first glance, seem too modern to have originated in the nineteenth century...
Sunday, 7 February 2016

Review: House of Wax: Anatomical, Pathological, And Ethnographic Waxworks from Castan’s Panopticum, Berlin, 1869-1922, Morbid Anatomy Museum, Brooklyn

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This weekend the Secret Victorianist returned to one of the first museums I visited on moving to New York—the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Broo...
Saturday, 5 September 2015

The Secret Victorianist at the Tenement Museum, New York City

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It’s Labor Day weekend here in the US, so I decided to honour the occasion by visiting the Tenement Museum in New York – a museum dedica...