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Gustavo Dudamel Is Paris Opera’s Next Music Director
The world's oldest opera company (founded in 1669 by Louis XIV) has signed one of the very few living conductors to become a celebrity...
Is It Really Possible For A Singer To Shatter A Glass With Her Voice?...
It can be done, but it's hardly easy or common, even for people with astounding voices. You have to be hitting just the right...
Benchmarking? Maybe Not
A guest post by actor/writer/arts administrator Selena Anguiano, who shares some concerns about the use of benchmarks in the process of pursuing equity in...
For The Guardian, At Least, Charitable Donations To Support News Are Actually Working
The newspaper/website raised $9 million through its dedicated US nonprofit alone over the past 12 months, and has been both active and transparent about...
Marketing Opera On TikTok (Maybe It Works!)
The Royal Opera House in London launched a TikTok channel last summer and has since picked up more than 400,000 followers, with some of...
The Louvre’s Director Is Mounting A Public Campaign To Keep His Job
"Jean-Luc Martinez, … whose job security has been a matter of public speculation for weeks, … has been on a media tour in recent...
Why Do Complex, Messy Spelling And Writing Systems So Rarely Get Reformed? Power
When they do get reformed, it's usually because autocrats force the changes through (as with Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Mao Zedong). "A big reason...
The College That’s Brought Popping, Breaking, Hip Hop, And Other Urban Dance Styles Into...
The University of East London has offered a BA in "Dance: Urban Practice" (as the program is called) since 2007. Carla Trim-Vamben, the program's...
Respected Actors Doing Commercial Endorsements Used To Be Considered Déclassé. Not Any More.
"Not too long ago, stars aligning their images with multivitamins or prepaid debit cards might have been eyed skeptically, their efforts coded as a...
One Of The Movie Theater Chains That’s Closing Also Owns Cinerama Technology. What Happens...
"Pacific Theatres announced on Monday that it would close all of its locations, which include the ArcLight Hollywood and the historic Cinerama Dome. Not...
With Theatres Closed, Regular Folks Have Taken To Doing Play Readings On Zoom
"Over the past year, as many theaters worldwide have remained closed, online play reading groups have arisen to fill that dramatic gap, with more...
Sydney’s Major Museums Face Huge Funding Cuts From State Government
"The state government flagging multimillion-dollar cuts for the Art Gallery of NSW, the Australian Museum, the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences...
Russian Artist In Obscenity Trial For Her Female Nudes
"Feminist artist and LGBTQ+ activist Yulia Tsvetkova … was detained in November 2019 and remained under house arrest in Komsomolsk-on-Amur until March 16,...
How A Gentle Little Movie By One Of Pakistan’s Favorite Directors Got Banned For...
Novelist Mohammed Hanif (A Case of Exploding Mangoes) writes about the strange case of Sarmad Khoosat's film Zindagi Tamasha ("Circus of Life"), which has...
On Zoom, Using Ancient Greek Theater To Process Modern Traumas
"Ancient stories, and texts that have stood the test of time, can be portals to honest and dignified grappling with present wounds and longings...
Two Years After The Notre-Dame Fire, What’s The State Of The Cathedral’s Organs?
In something of a miracle, the huge fire that ravaged the Paris landmark on April 15, 2019 did almost no serious damage to the...
Does Esperanto Have Any Hope Of Ever Catching On As A World Language? Not...
There are two fundamental problems with Esperanto as a genuinely global lingua franca. One is that, while it was intended to be have grammar...
Why Would Any Self-Respecting Woman Sing Schumann’s ‘Frauenliebe Und -Leben?’ In 2021? Let This...
Soprano Carolyn Sampson summarizes the texts of the eight songs in the cycle thus: "1. I can't think of anything but him; 2. He's...
‘The First Great Balanchine Dancer’, Mary Ellen Moylan, Dead At 95
"Still in her teens, Ms. Moylan began to perform principal roles with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, where Balanchine, ever more enthusiastic about...
France Is Allowing Auction Houses To Keep Operating During Lockdown, But Not Galleries. Galleries...
"Late last month the president of the Conseil des Ventes, the regulatory authority for auction houses, gave notice that the government would in fact...
Video Now/Live Later — How Pacific Northwest Ballet Approached Its Commissions After COVID Shut...
"PNB opted for an all-digital 2020-21 season, honoring its commissions from Lang, Donald Byrd, Alejandro Cerrudo, Edwaard Liang and Christopher Wheeldon by filming premieres...
Univision And Televisa Sign Merger To Create Spanish-Language Media Giant
Univision, the largest producer of Spanish-language in the United States, and Televisa, Mexico's largest media conglomerate (and one of the world's biggest single producers...
Edinburgh International Festival Will Go On This Summer — Outdoors (Yes, In Scotland)
Last summer, COVID forced the cancellation of the flagship of the Festival City's summer events; this year, with new cases falling in Scotland and...
One Of Australia’s Most Popular Soap Operas Roiled By Accusations Of On-Set Racism
Neighbours, which has been running in Australia since 1985 and is one of the country's most successful TV shows internationally, has had two indigenous...
‘I’m Just Free, Now That I Don’t Have To Worry About Fees’: Frank Gehry...
"Buzzing through his sprawling work space, the architect said he has now reached a point in his career where he has the luxury of...
