“Known for her large, bright voice and expressive acting, Ms. Ginsberg was most closely associated with the spinto repertory.” She was a regular at New York City Opera and Houston Grand Opera during the 1980s and performed with a number of regional companies.
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Russia’s Most Well-Connected Director Making Enemies
“The Oscar-winning film director Nikita Mikhalkov may hail from one of the Russian intelligentsia’s most famous families, but he has become the target of barbs over a rambling political manifesto and of angry street demonstrations by his neighbors.”
Pop Musical Tests Chinese Censorship
“A new Chinese-produced musical set to open Friday in Hong Kong is poised to become an all-singing, all-dancing test of China’s sensitivity to criticism. Wrapped within Broadway-style production values, the show holds a mirror to the country’s social problems and is centered around an Asian pop icon formerly banned in China.”
Singapore Casino to Open ‘ArtScience’ Museum
“Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands will open the world’s first ArtScience museum in February, the latest attraction at its $5.5 billion gambling complex built by U.S. casino giant Las Vegas Sands.” The 50,000 square feet of galleries “will deliver exhibits from art and science, media and technology, to design and architecture.”
Why Harlan Ellison Is Selling His Old Typewriter for $40,000
“I’m 76 and I’m very ill and like a sage old dog I can smell when certain signs are there. … As a consequence we have to get some money and as time goes by you get more and more famous and less and less wealthy. I literally have to start eating my past and turning into the actually dollar all of the artifacts that have made me who I am.”
Is Black Swan Camp? Anti-Camp?
“Far from subcultural, it’s a high-profile movie that strains for respectability, a barefaced Oscar grab. Despite some diva catfights and lesbian sex, there’s not a queer bone in its body: Its derisive view of female ambition, its crude linking of art and madness, and the leering frenzy of its girl-on-girl fantasies are as familiar and banal – as straight – as can be. … If Black Swan barely resembles camp as many of Sontag’s ‘notes’ would have it, is it then … anti-camp? Post-camp? Failed camp?”
Science as Worship
“To look for explanations behind natural phenomena is, as Einstein remarked, akin to an act of devotion. To admire a flower or a rainbow for their beauty and to then try to understand their function within a wider natural landscape only adds to their beauty. In this sense, there is a religious aspect to science.”
Kentucky Creationist Museum Will Feature Dinosaurs and Unicorns
“Kentucky’s state-backed $150 million creationist theme park, The Ark Encounter, will allow visitors to explore a literal interpretation of the Bible’s story of Noah and the ark” – an interpretation that, according to spokesmen, should include dinosaurs and unicorns.
Delhi To Get Its Own Version Of Tate Modern
“A decommissioned power station in Delhi, the Indian capital, is to be converted into an art gallery modelled on London’s Tate Modern.”
The Reinvigoration Of Literary Discourse?
“The end of subsidies and a focus on ‘impact’-led research may force literary criticism to reconnect with the public imagination.”