In The Sleeping Beauty, Mearns usually dances the Lilac Fairy, Princess Aurora’s protector – but she’s just performed Carabosse, the evil fairy, for the first time. Mearns talks to Gia Kourlas about how she approached the new role.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Mezzo Throws Up Onstage, Finishes Concert Nevertheless
Our heroine in the latest episode of “The Show Must Go On” is mezzo Sasha Cooke, who was singing beautifully in Verdi’s Requiem in Houston when nausea struck and she didn’t quite make it offstage in time. Even so, she came back and finished the job. Steven Brown has the details.
Alleged Sexual Assault At London’s Royal Court Theatre
The manager of the theatre’s bookshop was formally charged in Magistrate’s Court with sexual assault on a female.
Wealthy Collector And Powerful Museum Are About To Go To War Over Old Master Portrait
“Tom Hill, the American hedge fund manager who paid over £30m for a Pontormo portrait, is refusing to accept a matching offer from London’s National Gallery.”
London Mayor Announces Plan For Massive Creative Hub In Thames Estuary
Among the facilities listed in the proposal, for an area that stretches from Greenwich and Canary Wharf in London out to the North Sea coast, are a sculpture foundry, theatre rehearsal studios, a centre for video game development, two film studios, an expanded Turner Contemporary gallery, and Britain’s largest 3D-printing facility.
Librarian Under House Arrest In Moscow Takes Case To Court Of Human Rights
Police officers raided the Library of Ukrainian Literature in Moscow in October 2015 and arrested its director, Natalia Sharina, for distributing “extremist” literature and “anti-Russian propaganda.” She’s been under house arrest ever since and was put on trial last fall. Now Sharina is appealing to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
Ballet Companies Have To Accept That They’re Businesses, Says Major Company Director
David Bintley of Birmingham Royal Ballet: “I have lived, performed and managed dance within a generation that has, to a large extent, accepted arts funding by government as more of a right than a privilege. This financial safety net has been slowly but surely disappearing and the bald fact is: it’s not going to come back.”
This Government Program To Help Arts Groups Increase Private Fundraising Actually Worked
“Arts Council England’s Catalyst funding programme has ‘paid dividends’ in contributing to ‘real change’ related to fundraising, the final report into the programme has concluded. The three-year, £70m scheme, which ended in 2015, helped arts organisations to increase their fundraising capacity through awards and match funding.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.13.17
Paint, Hats and Degas–Really?
Today the Saint Louis Art Museum opened a new exhibition called Degas, Impressionism and the Paris Millinery Trade. On the surface, it sounds like one of those cooked-up theses, a mix of fashion with art, … A gimmick.
Well, probably not. … read more
AJBlog: Real Clear Arts Published 2017-02-12
Second Inversion
Or, “The America Chord.” … read more
AJBlog: Infinite Curves Published 2017-02-13
Limited-Run Musicals On Broadway: A New Business Model?
Limited-run plays have become standard on Broadway these days, but musicals tend to keep their runs open-ended for as long as the tourists keep coming. So it’s unusual that there are two limited-run musicals on Broadway right now (Sunset Boulevard and Sunday in the Park With George), following another (Falsettos) earlier in the season. Howard Sherman looks at why this phenomenon has developed and whether it can work financially.