Maybe not a masterpiece on the order of a 21st Century “Peter Grimes,” but Mark-Anthony Turnage’s “The Silver Tassie,” which had its debut at the English National Opera this week is damn good. – London Telegraph
Three Tenors to perform for the first time in same evening at the Metropolitan Opera. – Times of India (AP)
– opens music school in Tokyo. – CBC
Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura’s definition of art is simple. Picasso, yuchh. Matisse? Who’s that? “My good friend Steve (the governor’s former tag-team partner) would paint my official portrait.” – Chicago Tribune
Chinese film crew in St. Louis to make a movie about a Chinese couple in the Midwest, say their reception in America has been anything but welcoming. – St. Louis Post-Dispatch 02/18/00
— wins short-film prize at Berlin Film Festival. – Die Welt (Germany) 02/18/00
It’s tempting to describe the deeply personal films being made in Iran these days as fragile flowers struggling to thrive through a repressive government. “But their relationship with the fundamentalist regime and its social agenda is more ambiguous than that. For better or worse, this is a cinema that exists in its present form not in spite of, but because of the restrictions it has to circumvent.” – LA Weekly 02/18/00
A Stephen Sondheim show, written four decades ago, finally gets its premiere. – New York Times
