Carreras was on his way to the heights of opera stardom when he was struck by leukemia – but a comeback concert with friends and fellow tenors Luciano Pavarotti and Plácido Domingo turned him into a massive crossover star. Now he’s preparing to sing his final concert at Carnegie Hall.
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This ‘Star Trek’ Goes, Digitally, Where No CBS Show Has Gone Before
After the opening episode arrives over the usual airwaves, the show is only going to be available on CBS All Access – something that executives hope will get more people to sign up for the streaming service.
Inside The Massive, Two-Year Effort To Save, And Restore, Gainsborough’s ‘Blue Boy’
The Huntington’s senior paintings conservator, Christina O’Connell, has a plan. “The Blue Boy will be reframed and returned to the portrait gallery on November 1. It will remain there for 10 months while O’Connell processes reams of data and formulates her treatment plan. Then the painting will come down for another several months of treatment. Part of this work will be done in the lab, but as much as possible will be completed in a cordoned-off area of the portrait gallery, in full view of the visiting public.”
Cressida Pollock, Who Steered The English National Opera Through Its Troubles, Will Step Down
That righting came at a cost – cutting the number of operas, losing a music director, dealing with a threatened strike by the chorus – but the young executive director leaves the ENO on a much more stable financial footing, with new artistic leadership coming in.
A Backroom Deal With Weinstein Productions About ‘Finding Neverland’ Raises Questions For A High-Profile AIDS Fundraiser
Well: “Mr. Weinstein said that when arranging the charitable contributions that flowed to the theater he told some donors that the funds were to support the ‘Finding Neverland’ production. But, he said, it wasn’t his responsibility to further disclose that the money would be used to reimburse him and the other investors or otherwise cover their business obligations. If people wanted to learn more, he said, they could have done internet research.”
Viola Davis Says Hollywood’s Lack Of Diversity Can Only Be Changed From The Inside
Davis and her husband, Julian Tennon, set up a production company in 2011 to do just that – but, Tennon says, “When I go to meetings, it’s generally not African Americans that I’m talking to about getting something greenlit. Folks at the top are going to have to make decisions about trying to make systemic change. That’s the only way it’s going to happen.”
Transforming Teenagers Into Readers With An Intimate Love Of Books
A high school teacher who does surveys and knows only 15 percent of any class ever reads the entire book thinks that “if reading were less of a spectator sport maybe we’d inhabit a world better informed, more critical—and critical in a reflective rather than a reactive sense—a world shaped more collectively by thoughtfulness, by magnanimity.”
Can The Zeitz Museum Become The Tate Modern Of South Africa?
Sure, if by that you mean where the world’s wealthy come to play. “At its media preview last Friday, two of the first questions from South African journalists raised awkward points about Cape Town’s reputation as an unequal and inaccessible playground for the wealthy. The city is arguably one of the least African cities on the continent. And its apartheid geography has persisted, with blacks and whites still largely in their separate and unequal enclaves.”
Marian Horosko, Dancer And Historian Of Dance, Has Died At 92
The former editor of Dance Magazine, Horosko “was the only dancer who carried an old-fashioned typewriter with her on tour.”
Finally, We’re In The Golden Age Of Slutty Cinema
Now (just look at Girls’ Trip and Daphne) is the time for women who “are neither the victims of, nor inertly, Sleeping-Beauty-wise, waiting to be enlivened by, male desire.”