Placido Domingo is singing in the Barcelona opera house he considers home. “The 64-year-old tenor will take the stage as Wagner’s Parsifal in the Liceu Theatre in Barcelona on Friday, his first operatic role for 15 years in the theatre he considers home.” Does this sound like the beginning of a farewell tour?
Tag: 01.26.05
Levy Wins Whitbread
Small Island, Andrea Levy’s affectionate, Orange prize-winning comedy of errors, misunderstandings and prejudice at the onset of West Indian immigration to Britain, was last night voted Whitbread book of the year.
Queens Changes Architects (Does It Say More About The Museum Than The Architect?)
Three years ago, after extensive discussions and a competition, an architect was chosen for a redo of New York’s Queens Museum of Art. Now the museum is abandoning the plan and starting over. “A change in architects may not seem earthshaking. But the Queens Museum’s about-face suggests how a much-heralded public architecture project can be derailed by economics, politics, personalities and competing visions of how an institution operates day to day.”