“After more than four decades serving in various production and administrative capacities at Lyric Opera of Chicago, [William] Mason has announced he will step down as the company’s general director at the end of the 2011-12 season.”
Tag: 07.07.10
Cesare Siepi, Great Operatic Bass, Dies At 87
“For years, he was the reigning bass at the Metropolitan Opera, and a regular fixture at London’s Covent Garden and many other houses around the world,” where “he was one of the few Giovannis who could both sing with the sensuous, seductive ease the role requires and look the part of the irresistible seducer. He owned the role for decades….”
From Sophocles’ Pen To The Doctors’ Ears
A program at Harvard Medical School “uses ancient Greek tragedies to spark discussion among medical students and professionals about the ethics of treating patients facing painful, prolonged deaths.”
Rome Splurges On Splashy New Architecture As Ancient Monuments Molder
Zaha Hadid’s Maxxi museum has the world’s culturati all abuzz, and Renzo Piano and Massimiliano Fuksas are designing major new developments near Rome’s out-of-the-way ethnography museum. Meanwhile, chunks are falling off the Colosseum, and pieces of the Domus Aurea keep collapsing.