“[His] most revolutionary production, and the one which brought him international renown, was in 1969, a stage adaptation of Ariosto’s mammoth epic poem Orlando Furioso.”
Zoë Wanamaker: “I Had A Lot To Live Up To”
“As she prepares to play poet Stevie Smith, Zoë Wanamaker talks to Lyn Gardner about acting through grief, finding her voice – and why she has never performed in the theatre that bears her father’s name.”
Concertgoers Start Yelling At Each Other Over When (Not) To Applaud
“The moment of shame came as the Staatskapelle Dresden, one of the world’s best orchestras, opened the 43rd Hong Kong Arts Festival with a performance of Richard Strauss’ Metamorphosen. … But just as the 20-minute masterpiece faded out into intense C minor chords, an audience member began to clap.” And then – well, not all hell, but some hell broke loose.
A Day With Machiavelli In Exile
Johns Hopkins classicist Christopher Celenza looks at a letter Machiavelli wrote to a close friend describing his daily life in the country, not long after he was banned from Florence, during the period in which he wrote the first part of The Prince.
Classical Music Calms The (Not So Savage) Beast, Study Says
“Dogs at the Scottish SPCA’s Dumbarton & West of Scotland animal rescue and rehoming centre spent less time standing and barking when the music was being played.”
New Orleans Theatre Company Finds A(nother) Temporary Home
“In the years since leaving Canal Place, Southern Rep has almost settled in a new permanent location three times — in the Central Business District, Bywater and Mid-City. But each time the deal has fallen through. And each time, Hayes said, ‘you have to start from scratch.'”
A Day Off, Sort Of, With The Director Of The Dia Art Foundation
“I’m living next to the Earth Room, one of Dia’s sites. Usually artists stay there. I wake up and see the Earth Room, and say good night to it, too. It’s a project that Walter De Maria built in 1977 and it’s exactly as it sounds, a space on the first floor of a building in SoHo, which is filled with earth. It has a very strong presence, and it’s there, next to you.”
The American Ballet Theater Goes To Court Against One Of Its Longtime Workers
“The lawsuit rolls on, pitting a 57-year-old stage carpenter against one of the country’s premier ballet companies. And it puts two friends, who bonded during years of working alongside the likes of Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolf Nureyev and Susan Jaffe, on opposite sides of the courtroom.”
Bob Hope Captured America, But His Legacy Is Sinking Fast
“These days few readers may know or remember just how big a deal Hope was in his prime. … Hope was both ‘the most popular’ and ‘the most important’ entertainer of the twentieth century, ‘the only one who achieved success—often No. 1-rated success—in every major genre of mass entertainment in the modern era: vaudeville, Broadway, movies, radio, television, popular song, and live concerts.'”
Kristin Scott Thomas Says Hollywood’s Ageism Is A Disaster (And Boring, To Boot)
“Until the average life-span is 150 years or something, I don’t think women in their 50s are going to be considered at all viable.”
Add Many Countries In Africa To Your List Of Places To See Great Works Of Modernist Architecture
“There was an intense flowering of experimental and futuristic architecture in the 1960s and 70s, which the young African countries used to express their national identities. … But we simply don’t know about it.”
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