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Tag: 04.08.14
Singers Diana Damrau and Stuart Skelton Take Honors at International Opera Awards
“The event, now in its second year, launched in 2013 and was designed to be the first truly international set of prizes in the operatic world.” The Zurich Opera was named company of the year; the Aldeburgh Festival’s site-specific beach staging of Peter Grimes won a prize for best production of the Britten anniversary year.
Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.08.14
Beyond repair? On the loss of structural integrity …
AJBlog: Jumper | Published 2014-04-08
Nonprofit costs are driven by revenues
AJBlog: For What it’s Worth | Published 2014-04-08
Political Art, Billboards, New York and Los Angeles
AJBlog: CultureCrash | Published 2014-04-08
The Talking Cure, Part IV (powerful questioning and attentive listening)
AJBlog: We The Audience | Published 2014-04-08
From Julia Villagra: Wooing my peers (2)
AJBlog: Sandow | Published 2014-04-08
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Damien Hirst Hires Keith Richards’ Ghost Writer To Write His Autobiography
Fox has promised it will reveal the “barely-known first act” of Hirst’s life, with the artist’s “witty style and northern edge”.
America’s Most Popular Music: Country Displaces Pop
“As the music industry continues to struggle financially and once-dominant types of music like hip-hop recede on the charts, country’s audience has grown stronger, wider and younger — a fact that has not escaped the notice of media companies that have invested heavily in the genre.”
Tiny Ancient Chinese Cup Sells For Record $36 Million
“The ‘chicken cup’, so-called because it is decorated with a rooster and hen tending to their chicks, was bought by a Shanghai collector. It is eight centimetres (3.1 inches) in diameter and is 500 years old.”
Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum Gets A New Director
“Beatrix Ruf, who is German born, has led the Kunsthalle Zurich for the past 13 years. Ruff has been instrumental in putting Zurich on the contemporary art map.”
Shakespeare As Literature (It’s Better As Theatre)
“Shakespeare’s plays are for seeing in performance. Reading them, even for an experienced performer, is heavy going. To read any play with a large cast, it’s hard to keep track of who is who and their relationships with each other. Harder still to remember who is in the scene and not saying much.”
Sound and Fury Begin Contract Negotiations at Met Opera
“The latest labor talks at the Met have gotten off to their most contentious start in decades, replete with colorfully threatening emails and emotions running nearly as high offstage as on.”
A Critic Revisits the Bolshoi After 30 Years
Alastair Macaulay: “The Russian nation and its capital city have greatly changed; Russia’s dealings with the West – and its presentation of its own history – have been transformed; and the Bolshoi Theater itself has been completely renovated and partly rebuilt … [and] visually, in its auditorium and its public spaces, [it] may well now be the world’s most splendid theater.”