“The week-long Easter festival has been shaken to the core after an apparent suicide attempt by its technical chief and the disappearance of the director amid allegations of a massive fraud totalling over €2m (£1.7m).”
Tag: 02.06.10
A First For Melbourne Theatre
“When Marion Potts takes over as artistic director of the Malthouse Theatre company at the end of this year, she will make history as the first woman to assume creative control of one of Melbourne’s major theatre troupes.”
Has Toronto Theatre Been Diminshed?
“Isn’t it a little embarrassing that the City of Toronto website is still claiming that Hogtown is ‘the third-largest English-language theatre centre in the world’? While Toronto may have indeed vied for that unscientific title in the 1990s, it’s decidedly been in the dust in the past 10 years.”
Metropolitan Opera Brings Back Its Former General Manager
“New York’s Metropolitan Opera is bringing back Joseph Volpe, who left three years ago after 16 years as the company’s general manager, to lead contract talks with some of its major unions.”
When High Art Was Part Of The Ordinary Aspiration
“In those days it was taken for granted that the upward mobility of middle-class Americans extended to cultural matters, and that anyone, educated or not, could appreciate highbrow art so long as it was presented in an accessible and engaging way.”
Alberto Vilar Sentenced To Nine Years In Prison
Former arts philanthropist “Vilar was also given three years of probation to be served after his prison term and a $25,000 fine. He was ordered to pay $21.9 million in restitution.”