“The standing ovation shook the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday afternoon, with confetti made from ripped-up programs cascading down from the theater’s highest balcony as a bouquet of pink roses was tossed to the stage. Renée Fleming, the star soprano, had just bid farewell to one of her signature roles — the Marschallin in Richard Strauss’s ‘Der Rosenkavalier.'”
Author: ArtsJournal2
‘Twin Peaks’ Made Peak TV Possible (And Now It’s Coming Back, For Reasons We Might Not Question Too Closely)
Here’s the thing, and why the sequel won’t matter so much: “Without Twin Peaks, and its big-bang expansion of the possibilities of television, half your favorite shows wouldn’t exist. The absorptive, all-in serial, sonically and visually entire, novelistically cantilevered with deep structure and extending backwards into the viewer’s brain, was simply not a thing before Lynch and Frost. With Twin Peaks they effectively renegotiated TV’s contract with its audience.”
The Classroom Where It Happens, With The ‘It’ Being Hamilton For Education
These students get to perform history-class-inspired songs on stage at the Rodgers before they see a special matinee of “Hamilton.” WOW. “Ashley Avallos and Angie Salvador from Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies made an impassioned and moving plea for advancing women’s rights. Their piece, ‘Dont Forget About Us,’ echoed Angelica’s line in the show demanding that Thomas Jefferson ‘include women in the sequel’ to the Declaration of Independence, but took as its main inspiration the words of a historical figure not featured in the play, Abigail Adams.”
German Artist Whose Pavilion Is ‘Grim And Threatening’ Wins The Golden Lion In Venice
Anne Imhof’s work “disturbingly mixes totalitarian imagery with the slouchy looks made famous by fashion designers such as Balenciaga’s Demna Gvasalia,” and it “divided spectators at the biennial’s preview this week.”
The Opera Created, And Filmed, For Streaming On iPads And Other Small Screens
This episodic opera was created, filmed on Alcatraz, and then packaged for serial distribution. All 12 episodes drop online on May 31. Some of the plot … “In composer Lisa Bielawa’s world, cows sing, a ponytailed man plays the hurdy-gurdy in the backseat of a vintage Chrysler Valiant and an escape from Alcatraz is as simple as tossing a knotted sheet rope out a prison cell window and driving off into the night — to Sweden.”
Jessica Chastain Has Some Ideas For Hollywood
First of all, more action, less talk: “It’s not enough to say ‘Oh there’s a wage gap’ and ‘Oh only 7% of American film directors are women’, you have to say, ‘Well if I’m part of the industry I’m part of the problem, what can I do to help?'”
Cary Grant Dropped Acid 100 Times, Which Gave Him Inner Peace But Maybe Ruined His Career
Yoga and hypnosis didn’t work, so he went for something different. Why? “Grant spent his life as a creature in flight. His mercurial nature was the making of him – a peculiarly Gatsby-esque urge that allowed a Bristol street urchin named Archie Leach to reimagine himself as an American prince, the embodiment of Hollywood grace and glamour.”
Elvis Fans Are Starting To Die Off, And No One Wants Their Memorabilia
So this is what happens when a cultural phenomenon fades. “There are about 32,000 Elvis records being sold on eBay at the moment – this number was closer to 20,000 items for all memorabilia five years ago. And it’s not even as if they are selling well.” Ouch.
Remodeling Modernism, And Saving A City Center
The town of Chester, UK, had a problem: An empty old Odeon movie theater, and a library that needed to move in order to save money. Then architects worked a miracle of a performance space that also incorporates a library (open from 8 am to 11 pm, just like the venue), restaurants and space that might “make connections between one use and another, such that someone coming for a show might leave with a book, or a school party visiting the library’s education rooms might also see some acting.”
Do Reviews Of ‘Family Musicals’ Matter? Not To Kids, The Critical Power In The Family
Just ask Anastasia and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. (Or rather, ask their producers, who are happy that kids and their parents say things like, “It’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! How do you not come?”