The Mongolian State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet presents “14 operas and 14 ballets a year, with multiple performances given to full houses every weekend from October to July. … While the core repertory is Western, the theater also promotes the creation of original Mongolian works and keeps close ties with Mongolian composers.”
Tag: 06.08.11
Thielemann/Dresden To Replace Rattle/Berlin At Salzburg Easter Festival
“The Salzburg Easter Festival said Christian Thielemann will replace Simon Rattle as musical director, bringing his Staatskapelle Dresden as the resident orchestra after the Berlin Philharmonic quit in May.”
Wole Soyinka: ‘I Would Rather Not Have Been A Political Activist’
Says the Nigerian poet/playwright/Nobel laureate, “I’ve always resented – secretly resented – the amount of time which I’ve been compelled to spend on political activism, but I also recognize the fact that I wouldn’t be what I am, even as a writer, if I did not …”
Tea Obreht’s The Tiger’s Wife Wins 2011 Orange Prize
“The winner of this year’s Orange prize for fiction [by female authors] is Téa Obreht, a first time novelist and, at 25, the youngest author to take the award in its 16-year history.”
‘The Night I Danced For Michael Clark’
For the second year in a row, Clark is staging a work in the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall using both professional and untrained dancers. One of last year’s performers writes about the experience.
‘How Eight-Year-Old Dance Critics Put Me To Shame’
Judith Mackrell: “I’m used to giving lectures on dance criticism or talking about my job to interested adults. But when I was asked to participate in a project involving primary school children from Years 4 and 6 I was in unknown terrain. When I was eight years old I didn’t even know what a dance critic was.”
How Do Sportscasters Talk Basketball In Spanish? (Es Complicado)
“Broadcasters covering the NBA finals for Spanish-speaking fans from different parts of the world do it from a Tower of Babel where a dunk is not a dunk, but the play-by-play guys disagree about just what to call it.”
Could Go The F*** To Sleep Overwhelm Its Tiny Publisher?
“Akashic [Books] has already printed nearly 300,000 copies and sold more than 50,000, many in preorders, since the book does not officially go on sale until next week.” Akashic’s titles usually sell a few thousand copies.