“A new national production facility for the Australian Ballet will be built in Melbourne’s southwest following the announcement yesterday of a $2 million donation from the federal government.”
Tag: 06.08.12
Daria Klimentova May Be Running A Ballet Company Soon
The English National Ballet star, about to turn 41, “and her husband (an older English theatrical lighting expert) have a second home in Prague, where she runs a season of international ballet classes each summer. She’s turned down the job as director of the Czech National Ballet three times ‘because I was still young and wanted to dance’.”
John Adams On The Danger In Staging Nixon In China
“[The opera] lives right on the cusp between satire and the maudlin on the one hand, and something that’s quite visionary and, I think, quite genuinely and uniquely American. And I think the danger in staging it is to demean the characters; Nixon is so easily ridiculed.”