A famed actor as well as an innovative and controversial director, “Schlingensief [staged] numerous movies, plays and operas, including an internationally recognized” – not to say notorious – “production of Parsifal for the Wagner summer festival in the southern German city of Bayreuth in 2004.”
Tag: 08.21.10
Pondering The Don Rosenberg/Plain Dealer Decision
“Criticism is not an exact science, and the paper would have done its readers a service by regularly publishing contrasting points of view on the city’s No. 1 cultural venture. Instead, the editors came off looking like a bunch of spineless small-timers who let the Cleveland Orchestra roll them.”
Can You Trust Art Dealers?
“Art buyers have long been wary of the prices dealers charge in a notoriously opaque market. Sellers of art also are increasingly becoming suspicious.”
Theatre Beamed To Movie Theatres (Is This The Future?)
“Without anyone quite realising it, live performance has experienced a revolution. From being a unique experience shared by one group of people, it has become a form of mass participation. How has that come about? Is it even a good thing? And what about the work itself?”