Performing operas with cuts was common practice until the mid-20th century, as performing Shakespeare, for instance, is today. So, the argument goes, returning to the practice now is hardly as heretical as it might seem. “I don’t think we can any longer fail to hear what our audience is saying about length,” says Gockley.
Month: July 2016
Opera Omaha Music Director Pleads No Contest To Stealing $113K From His Mother
John C. Gawf had power of attorney for his mother, who suffers from dementia, and he wrote himself checks from her account to pay gambling debts and credit card bills.
Actors With Disabilities Say It’s Time To Start Casting Them In Disabled Roles
“Recent conversations around this issue, in film and television as well as in theater, have become more contentious, with comparisons often drawn to traditions of blackface. As the journalist Frances Ryan wrote … last year, ‘Perhaps it is time to think before we next applaud ‘cripping up.’ Disabled people’s lives are more than something for non-disabled actors to play at.'”
How Can The Arts Respond To Brexit? Five Artists Discuss The Issues
Novelists Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials), Zia Haider Rahman (In the Light of What We Know), and Elif Shahak (The Bastard of Istanbul); playwright/screenwriter Mike Bartlett (King Charles III); and stage director Marianne Elliott (War Horse and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) join in a virtual panel discussion on their reactions to the vote, how it’s changed the way they see Britain as a place to make their homes, and when is too early for artworks to address the historic moment.
What Carlos Acosta Is Up To (A Lot), Now That He’s Back In Cuba
He’s founded a company, Acosta Danza, with hald of the dancers trained in classical ballet and the other half in modern dance. (He wants to add in hip-hop and flamenco.) He’s working to keep cultural exchange and resources flowing between the island and Britain. And his biggest dream is to revive the legendary National Art Schools of Havana, built during the ’60s but then abandoned.
Man Cuts Off His Ballet Teacher’s Thumb Because She Threw Him Out Of Class For Being Disruptive
No, this did not happen in Florida.
Why So Many Ph.D. Students Drop Out
It’s not (or not just) because it’ll be hard to find a job in your field.
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They don’t expect results
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How William Shawn Built The New Yorker Into A Literary Institution
“The sheer proliferation of advertising demanded that Shawn scramble in search of more and more editorial matter. This, he found, had an inevitable drag on quality. There is, in this world, after all, only so much talent at a given time—only so much good writing. At a certain point, he found it necessary to limit the pages in a weekly issue to 248—as fat as a phone book in some towns. In his tenure as editor, Shawn made innumerable hires, tried out countless freelancers, and ran long, multipart series—some forgettable, some central to the literary and journalistic history of mid-century America.”
And Just Like That, Christo’s Floating Piers Are Gone
“As the local officials who approved the project pay tribute to the boost to international tourism in the region, it seems that Italy has learned to embrace Christo’s monumental, ephemeral brand of sculpture. But against the instincts of an artist who claims not to understand computers, the Floating Piers will have a digital afterlife. The selfie-friendly installation has generated 130,000 hashtags on social media, while Google is due to put 360-degree images of the work online through its Street View function.”