After the incident last Saturday in which Marco Goecke, enraged over a harsh review, smeared the face of critic Wiebke Hüster with the feces of his pet dachshund, the Hannover State Opera, where he directed the ballet company, has terminated his contract. - BBC
The streaming revolution has upended the old system of compensation. The syndication market for TV shows has all but disappeared, and residuals from movies have also waned as theatrical attendance has sharply declined, eroding the residual income for writers. - Los Angeles Times
He was artistic director at some of the German-speaking world's most illustrious institutions: Hamburg's Thalia Theater, the Ruhrtriennale, the Salzburg Festival, and the Berlin State Opera. He also staged productions at many of the world's leading opera houses, including an acclaimed 2000 Fidelio at the Met. - The New York Times
"Unfortunately, Brexit seems to be good at putting up barriers. Brexit red tape means that bringing in skilled workers the UK economy desperately needs is more difficult, and it also means that exporting artistic success is harder and more expensive." - The New European
Said an official at the Ukrainian Embassy to Ireland, "Neither the National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of Odesa nor any of its dancers are involved in the impostor project called the Ukrainian National Ballet of Odessa." (Note the fake company's use of the city's Russian name.) - The Irish Times
Several major podcast publishers have had layoffs, and "Amazon, SiriusXM, NPR and Spotify have all curbed podcast budgets in the last year, sometimes allowing expensive deals to sunset or canceling others before they closed." As one analyst put it, "The dumb money era is over." - The New York Times
"I realized when I came along, I wasn't Meryl Streep who had been put into a bikini. I was somebody that got rocketed into the spotlight and superstardom overnight. I knew this was going to give me an opportunity and I should make the best of it." - Yahoo! (Los Angeles Times)
"The Codex Sassoon, dating to the late 9th to early 10th century, is believed to be the earliest and most complete Hebrew Bible." The expected price: $30 million to $50 million. - CNN
"Paramount Global is again seeking to sell Simon & Schuster, months after the media company's $2.2 billion deal to sell the book publisher to Penguin Random House collapsed." - Reuters
Dallas County’s population is 40% Hispanic/Latino (1.05 million people) and 34% of residents speak Spanish at home, according to 2020 census data (though Latinos were also heavily undercounted in that census). - NiemanLab
“Recent events question the quality of acquisition procedures and the functioning of its market. A reaction is necessary to guarantee France’s capacity for influence in the cultural and heritage domain.” - ARTnews
At the ancient citadel of Aleppo, which was also recently damaged during Syria’s civil war, parts of an Ottoman-era mill collapsed along with parts of the minaret at citadel’s mosque. - ARTnews
This “Lohengrin,” so radical for the Met at the time, anticipated today’s broader range of directorial approaches there — like Willy Decker’s starkly symbolic “La Traviata” and Simon Stone’s contemporary-America “Lucia di Lammermoor.” - The New York Times
The connection between love interests, once a central element of the rom-com, has in recent years seemed secondary at best; now it’s actually plausible that someone might try to add it in post. - The New Yorker
In 2023, U.S. state legislatures managed to surpass the number of anti-LGBTQ+ bills that were proposed 2022—i.e., what took lawmakers 365 days to achieve last year took has taken a month this year. Indeed, these bills are popping up faster than a game of transphobic Whac-A-Mole. - American Theatre
