With union contract talks heating up, a tax filing for 2012 indicates that general manager Peter Gelb earned pay and benefits of $1.8 million, chorus and orchestra members average around $200,000 in pay and $85-100K in benefits, and that three of the five highest-paid employees are stage technicians.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Angelin Preljocaj’s Heart Of Darkness
“There is a very, very dark side in humanity,” says the Albanian-French choreographer. “There is something light and beautiful in humanity, but my way of fighting against the very hard part is to show it and not to answer a question but to ask a question on that.”
Shen Wei – How A Traditional Hunan Opera Performer Became A World-Beating Modern Choreographer
It was because of noodging from his mother. (Thanks, Ma!)
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Lorin Maazel Resigns From Munich Philharmonic, Scales Next Season’s Gigs Way Back
“Maazel, 84, appears to have taken his recent health difficulties as a wake-up call, and today announced his resignation from another current post; effective immediately, he is withdrawing from the music directorship of the Munich Philharmonic, and suspending many of his planned activities for the 2014-15 season.”
Two More Foundations Pledge $13M To Save Detroit Institute’s Art
“The New York-based Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has committed up to $10 million, and the J. Paul Getty Trust of Los Angeles has pledged $3 million to the federally mediated deal, … , which would protect the city-owned DIA from having to sell its treasures while easing cuts to city pensioners in Detroit’s bankruptcy.”
€100,000 Impac Dublin Literary Award Goes To South American For First Time
“Colombian writer Juan Gabriel Vásquez today emerged as the 2014 winner with the third of his novels to appear in English, The Sound of Things Falling, translated by Canadian Anne McLean.”
‘Veep’ Vs. ‘The Thick Of It’: Why Did They Make The American Political Satire Less Sharp Than The British?
“So what changed when the same writers turned their attention to American politics? Why did their British satire bite so hard, when the American Veep prefers to nibble at the edges? … American political culture doesn’t encourage the contempt for its leaders that British political culture expects as standard.”
Star Filmmakers Petition Putin To Release Director Jailed For ‘Terrorism’
“A who’s who of European directors” – among them Pedro Almodóvar, Agnieszka Holland, Stephen Daldry, Béla Tarr, Wim Wenders and Mike Leigh – “have signed a letter to Vladimir Putin and Russian leaders seeking justice for Oleg Sentsov, the Ukarainian filmmaker who was arrested by Russian authorities on May 11 and is believed held in a Moscow prison.”
Crowdfunding For Stage Projects In Britain Is Catching On Fast
The number of donors increased by nearly 700% between the beginning of 2014 and the end of March; the amount pledged rose at a similar rate over the period – and then doubled from that in April.