Two weeks after the Metropolitan Opera announced its 2017-18 season, including a big new production of Tosca headlined by Kaufmann, the tenor revealed that he had withdrawn from the project. However, tucked deep in this article by Michael Cooper about Kaufmann’s frequent cancellations is a quote from Met general manager Peter Gelb which implies that he made Kaufmann’s withdrawal more complete than Kaufmann himself had wished.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Architect Of Dubai’s Next Big Landmark Says His Work Has Been Stolen
Fernando Donis, a former associate of Rem Koolhaas at OMA (the CCTV headquarters in Beijing is his design), had hoped that the new Dubai Frame, which he won an international competition to design, would be his grand debut under his own name. Instead, he maintains, the emirate has stolen his copyright and frozen him out of the project.
Are Things Finally Getting Better For Women In The Art World?
“A number of high-profile institutions are actively attempting to redress gender disparity in their collections, exhibitions, and leadership. On International Women’s Day, we celebrate a few of the most noteworthy recent initiatives around the world.”
How James Cousins Learned To Work Emotion Into His Choreography
“Cousins remembers one of his teachers saying: ‘If you can incorporate some emotion into what you do, there’ll be no stopping you.’ But at that point he wasn’t sure how.” As he tells Judith Mackrell, he had a revelation while being mentored by Matthew Bourne: “I was making a solo and Matt suggested that I played with the focus of the dancer’s eyes …”
After 27 Years And A Smuggling, Censored Iranian Film Gets First Public Release
When filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, one of the stars of the Iranian New Wave, finished The Nights of Zayandeh-rood in 1990, the country’s censors cut about a third of it (some of that at the direct request of supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei) and then locked it away after a screening at a Tehran festival. Makhmalbaf, now living in London, somehow (he won’t say) got the footage out of the archive and into release in Britain.
A Photo Journal From Inside Africa’s Leading Ballet Company
Principal dancer Shannon Glover takes a photographer backstage at Johannesburg Ballet.
300 Years’ Worth Of Self-Playing Instruments: A Visit To Siegfried’s Mechanical Music Cabinet
Housed in a 15th-century manor on the Rhine, the museum “showcases 350 mechanical instruments dating back three centuries. Think delicate music boxes, one with a chirping bird on top, or massive pipe organs, and pretty much everything in between. The extensive collection also includes tools and machines used to produce the instruments, and cardboard sheet music.” (includes videos)
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Imagining a bright future
Suppose in 10 years all problems that orchestras have will be solved! Suppose that orchestras have a vibrant young audience, that people all over the country are talking about what orchestras do. Suppose … read more
AJBlog: Sandow Published 2017-03-08
This Picture Of Strawberries Contains (Believe It Or Not) No Red Pixels
“The strawberries appear red, despite their lack of any red pixels, because of color constancy, or the way that the human brain is designed to perceive the same colors under a range of circumstances. Remember The Dress? Same deal.”
David Letterman Is Back, And He Can’t Stop Talking (Especially About Trump)
No, he’s not back on TV, but he is talking to New York magazine’s David Marchese about retirement (“I’m lonely, I can’t stop talking. This is like visitors’ day at prison for me.”), late-night TV today (he never watches), and what he’d do if he got The Donald on camera.