Getting To Know The Met’s New Heir Apparent

In a recent rehearsal, new Metropolitan Opera Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi “politely prefaced corrections with ‘I suggest’ and ‘May I ask a favor, please?’ But he made sure to get the changes that he wanted, even if they required several repetitions. After 90 minutes of efficient but painstaking rehearsal, he let the musicians go – an hour early.”

Why Paulo Coelho Gives His Novels Away Online

“I saw the first pirated edition of one of my books, so I said I’m going to post it online. … I put this first copy online and I sold, in the first year, 10,000 copies there. And in the second year it jumped to 100,000 copies. … Then I started putting other books online, knowing that if people read a little bit and they like it, they are going to buy the book.”