Critic
What Bradley Cooper Gets Right About Leonard Bernstein in Maestro
The actor-director’s channeling of the conductor is uncanny, and Carey Mulligan’s performance as his wife is likewise riveting.
Bradley Cooper as Leonard Bernstein in Maestro.
Photographer: Jason McDonald/Netflix
The conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein and the actress Felicia Montealegre weren’t an obvious match.
First, there was the matter of Bernstein’s incandescent celebrity: By the time they married in 1951, crowds were following the musical wunderkind as he flitted from triumph to triumph.