The 75-year-old conductor has battled numerous health problems over the past several years: esophageal cancer, hernia, pneumonia, even shingles. Ozawa announced this week that he will conduct Bartók’s one-act opera Bluebeard’s Castle at Japan’s Saito Kinen Festival, which he founded in 1992.
Tag: 06.07.11
Truly Ephemeral Theater: Four Days’ Rehearsal, One Performance, Gone.
“Beau Willimon reached a dream-come-true moment on Thursday afternoon: His cast of 25 actors, drawn from across the country and given just days to work, was rehearsing for the first time in its 15,000-square-foot playing area in a South Brooklyn warehouse where the show was to have its one-night-only run.”
Still Teaching Ballet Class At Age 93
Therrell Camille Smith has been teaching at her own dance school in Northeast Washington, DC since 1948. Even today, she still “gives demonstrations, joining her students at the bar as they execute their plieés, rond de jambes and relevés.
Can Watching Jackass Turn You Into One? Maybe So, Says Study
“From reality television to dumb-and-dumber films, contemporary entertainment often amounts to watching stupid people do stupid things. New research suggests such seemingly innocuous diversions should have their own rating: LYI. As in: Watching this may Lower Your Intelligence.”
Dear Mayor Bloomberg: Please Help Save NY City Opera
“The City Opera is too important for New York to lose. And one need not look back to the days of Beverly Sills to find an artistically vibrant company. As recently as the 2006-07 season, under Paul Kellogg’s leadership, the company was in good shape and gave six performances a week. This reminds us that the City Opera’s current difficulties stem not from a proven inability to function economically–though running it has never been easy–but from missteps by management.”
Christian Marclay Wins Venice Biennale Top Prize
“The California-born Marclay took the juried prize on the weekend for The Clock, his now-famous video/art installation/time piece comprised of thousands of clips from hundreds of films that runs for 24 consecutive hours.”
Why Australian Theatres Fear The Classics
“The narrow range of our theatre points to what Tom Wright, associate director at Sydney Theatre Company, calls canonical collapse, suggesting a failure of cultural memory or curiosity.”
Hong Kong’s Long-Planned, And Long-Stalled, Cultural District
“The budget set aside for new cultural development would be the envy of any arts administrator: 21.6 billion Hong Kong dollars [USD 2.8bn] … And yet the 40-hectare, or almost 100-acre, site reclaimed from the South China Sea in the 1990s for this purpose is still empty … But finally this year, the government seems to have jump-started the moribund project.”