Bob May has 50 years experience in the performing arts and business in Southern California. He has been a stage and film actor and director. He has also been a producer, business consultant, ...

Mezzo-soprano Ryu-Kyung Kim, most recently seen as Suzuki in Dayton Opera’s 2015 production of “Madame Butterfly,” will be featured in the DPO’s presentation of the orchestral/vocal masterpiece ...

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When foreigners watch patriotic American films, they must find them obnoxious. This was one of my reactions to Sergei Eisenstein’s 1938 epic “Alexander Nevsky,” a glorification of the medieval prince ...

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Yet you can’t fault Prokofiev’s spirited response to every war situation in this propagandist masterpiece about the stalwart 13 th century prince who sees off an invasion of Teutonic knights in a ...