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Piece Of ‘Turandot’ Set Falls On Chorus; Two Hospitalized

“A piece of scenography fell during a performance of Turandot [at the Teatro Regio] in Turin last night, hitting two chorus members who were rushed to hospital. The incident occurred at the end of the second act as the curtain closed and a loud crash was heard in the auditorium.”

England’s Historic Cathedrals At ‘Severe Financial Risk’

“Cathedrals, which attract more than 10 million visitors a year, face spiralling costs of running, repairing and maintaining their buildings.” An investigation launched by the Church of England’s two archbishops found a “confusion of governance and management [that] has increased both operational and financial risks.”

Pacifica Radio Seeks Emergency Loan To Avoid Collapse

“[The Pacifica Foundation] is at risk of asset seizure following a judgment in October that ordered the network to pay $1.8 million in back rent plus interest to the Empire State Realty Trust. The rent is for the transmitter of WBAI, Pacifica’s New York City station. … Pacifica’s total debt is roughly $8 million, including roughly $2.4 million to Democracy Now! Productions. The network is also in arrears for pension payments.”

Can A Gay French Countertenor Help Fix Classical Music’s Diversity Problem?

A reporter visits Philippe Jaroussky’s music academy in the banlieues of Paris, where children from working-class and immigrant families get free music instruction.

John Barton, Co-Founder Of Royal Shakespeare Company, Dead At 89

“As a playwright, with two ten-play dramatic cycles inspired by classical Greek drama to his credit, he enlarged the ambition and dimensions of theatre … Through his work as a director, and above all as a teacher, [he] changed the way we play and hear Shakespeare. His editing and literary carpentering restored neglected Shakespeare plays to the theatrical canon. He was a dramaturg, a literary manager, before the term was imported from the theatrical world of Bertolt Brecht.”

Hugh Wilson, 74, Created ‘WKRP In Cincinnati’ And Directed ‘Police Academy’ And ‘The First Wives’ Club’

Mr. Wilson worked his way into comedy writing after starting out in advertising, and in 1978 he graduated from writer to creator when WKRP made its debut. … [He] introduced a different brand of misfits in Police Academy, his first feature-film directing assignment, for which he was also one of the screenwriters.”

London’s Southbank Centre Is Losing Its Artistic Director

“Jude Kelly, one of the UK’s longest-serving and highest-profile arts leaders, is stepping down from the Southbank Centre after 12 years. … Kelly said she wanted to concentrate on the WOW – Women of the World festival she founded eight years ago, seeing its future as ‘a global movement’.”

Can A ‘Daily Show’-Style TV Series Help Strengthen Democracy In Nigeria?

Reporter Adrian Chen travels to Lagos to watch the development and debut of The Other News. a show which (so an American consultant working on it hoped), “by satirizing a kind of journalism that doesn’t really exist in Nigeria, … could actually help bring it about.”

V&A Museum’s Scottish Satellite Gets September Opening Date

“The £80m [Victoria and Albert] Museum Of Design Dundee on the banks of the Tay, housed in a dazzling building inspired by cliffs on the east coast of Scotland, is to open [on 15] September. Details were announced on Thursday for what will be the V&A’s first outpost outside London, and Scotland’s first design museum.”