Last year, for instance, the New Jersey Ballet added "a gorgeous new Act One set," said Paul McRae, assistant artistic director of the company based in Livingston, which is performing "The Nutcracker" for a 41st year.
| The Met's new production of Puccini's three gorgeous one-acts, "Il Trittico," is opera at it "setsiest".
| Jack O'Brien's new production of Puccini's three gorgeous one-acts, "Il Trittico," is opera at its "setsiest".
It's gorgeous, expertly acted filmmaking, but it's clear -- by around the third episode -- that the season will never gel into a cohesive narrative, and it won't really have anything poignant to say by the time the final episode's credits roll.
The richest sounds come from Sherratt, whose gorgeous legato makes Act I a treat.
Inglourious Basterds is a gorgeous, violent, beautifully acted, gut-punching, genre-blending jolt that doesn't make you want to scalp Nahtzies (as Brad Pitt's hillbilly Aldo Raine so memorably intones), it makes you want to watch a lot of movies.
But its wittiest moments are very amusing, and its musical high points, like the song "Off to the East," near the end of the first act, are gorgeous.
Though she discounts the gorgeous duet that ends Act II and the lively quintet that ends the whole, she might have added that the arias are of the da capo variety: an A section giving way to B, then returning, however decorated or transformed.
In an act of gorgeous synchronicity with the Uber experiment, Donald Trump's media people announced on the same day that Uber's chief executive, Travis Kalanick – who once joked that he would move to China if Trump won the election – would be joining the president-elect's so-called strategic and policy committee.
Ms. Vishneva looks gorgeous, dances beautifully and acts with real vulnerability.
