I can’t help feeling we’ve been here before, and repeatedly, in the past – and not just with ENO, either, but with so many of our opera houses. The management-level soap opera that surrounds it all is always great gossipy fun, but whoever resigns, stays, joins, is fired, insulted, or otherwise slandered, Charlotte I think puts her finger on the bigger story, which is really about the cultural function of opera in the country.
Tag: 02.03.15
Why It Took Harper Lee 55 Years To Publish A Second Book
The extraordinary career – or perhaps non-career – of Harper Lee bears witness to a quite different way of conducting a writing life. She wrote one novel, an immediate classic and perhaps the best-selling novel of the 20th century, To Kill a Mockingbird. Since its publication in 1960, Lee has published no other book.
The Peculiar History Of The Unicorn
“Today, the unicorn is a decidedly more magical, gentle creature, running around on rainbows and inspiring millions with regular appearances in My Little Pony and the occasional acid trip and in North Korea, apparently. I’d recommend against heading over to Pyongyang to find one, though. Maybe just stick to the acid.”
The (Improbably) Hottest Show In New York
“The mobile-ticket site, Today Tix, has between 1,500 and 2,000 entries daily for a lottery to two tickets offered for $10 each. Sporadic tickets are available on StubHub for exorbitant fees: a single ticket is listed for $650 for this Saturday.”
Obama Budget Proposal Calls For Slight Increase In NEA, NEH Funding
“President Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal 2016 calls for slight increases in federal funding for cultural institutions, including the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. But the proposed increases wouldn’t come close to reversing the cuts experienced by those groups during the previous five years.”
This Dance Venue Can Show The Rest Of Us A Few Things About Developing New Audiences
Sadler’s Wells in London “has started to build a programme of commissioned work for children and family audiences that runs throughout the year and not just at Christmas.”
Milan Kundera’s First Novel In 13 Years Is On The Way
“Faber will release Kundera’s The Festival of Insignificance, translated from the original French by Linda Asher, on 18 June. The short work was first published in Italy in 2013, and has since topped charts in Italy, Spain and France. … The US edition will be released by HarperCollins on 23 June.”
Philadelphia Museum Of Art Receives Five Major French Impressionist Paintings
“A late Cézanne view of Mont Sainte-Victoire, a Manet still life of fruit, a landscape and a cityscape by Pissarro, and a portrait of a young girl by Berthe Morisot – all [are from] a bequest from longtime museum supporter Helen Tyson Madeira, who died last year.”
New Arab News Channel Shut Down By State After One Day
The general manager of the network, called Al-Arab and based in Bahrain, said before launch, “We are going to be neutral; we are not going to take sides. We are going to bring in all sides in any conflict because right now we have a conflict in almost every Arab country.” And they did …
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