Albert Shen (albert-shen)

Arts and Entertainment

Recasting the Past and Shaping the Future

Albert Shen, Elizabeth Chao

Recasting the Past, the Met’s newest asian art exhibition, offers a fresh perspective on the art of Chinese bronzes and works to establish later bronzes’s cultural significance (with an interview with Curator Pengliang Lu).

Issue 15, Volume 115

Arts and Entertainment

The Opera of Terror - Poulenc’s Díalogues Des Carmélites in Juilliard

Albert Shen

Reviewing The Juilliard School’s performance of the opera Díalogues Des Carmélites

Issue 15, Volume 115

Arts and Entertainment

Chopin it Up

Albert Shen

Introducing and reviewing the 11th National Chopin Competition

Issue 9, Volume 115

Arts and Entertainment

Love, Empathy, and Miracle: Opera Die Frau Ohne Schatten at the Met

Albert Shen

A review of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2024 performance of opera Die Frau Ohne Schatten

Issue 8, Volume 115

Arts and Entertainment

Christmas Songs That Weren’t for Christmas

Albert Shen

To discuss examples of Christmas music that had non-Christmas origins

Issue 7, Volume 115

Arts and Entertainment

Turandot: A Western Appreciation of Eastern Culture

Albert Shen

Issue 17, Volume 114

Arts and Entertainment

When Eurydice Gets a Good Ending: Orfeo ed Euridice by Gluck

Albert Shen

Review of the Met Opera’s production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice.

Issue 17, Volume 114

Arts and Entertainment

“Émigré”: A WWII Love Story Told Through Music

Albert Shen

A review of the recently released oratorio “Émigré”

Issue 14, Volume 114

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