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At Age 80, Soprano Lucy Shelton Finds Herself With An Opera Career
For decades she has been one of America's leading singers of avant-garde classical music, premiering dozens of pieces by composers from Elliott Carter to...
Lou Donaldson, Master Jazz Saxophonist And Walking History Lesson, Has Died At 98
"An alto saxophonist with a supple, earthy style, (he) was a key figure in the development of three styles of jazz" — bebop, hard...
French News Outlets Sue X (Twitter) For Running Their Content Without Paying For It
The lead plaintiffs are the dailies Le Figaro, Les Echos, Le Parisien and Le Monde, with smaller outlets such as Nouvel Obs, HuffPost France,...
Rough Times For Dance In Chicago As A 52-Year-Old Company Shuts Down And A...
The troupe Chicago Moving Company has announced its closing, nine years after the death of founder Nana Shineflug. Meanwhile, Links Hall, a 46-year-old venue...
Working In Public View, Conservators Begin Restoration of Rembrandt’s “Night Watch”
"The process" — taking place in a glass chamber in a gallery at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum — "will involve removing varnish that was applied during...
How Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony’s Musicians Saved Their Bankrupt Orchestra
"They got in touch with its foundation and creditors, and built a new board. ... The newly-formed team of directors and musicians spent months...
Vatican Sets Up AI Replica Of St. Peter’s Basilica
"The Vatican and Microsoft on Monday unveiled a digital twin of St. Peter’s Basilica that uses artificial intelligence to explore one of the world’s...
City Of Spokane To Revive Its Long-Shuttered Arts Department
"More than a decade after Spokane’s city arts department was dismantled by former Mayor David Condon, Mayor Lisa Brown has announced that she plans...
Julio Bocca To Take Charge At South America’s Leading Ballet Company
A major ballet star in the 1980s and '90s, Bocca is probably Argentina's most famous living dancer. As of February, he becomes artistic director...
Booker Prize 2024: Samantha Harvey’s “Orbital” Scores Upset Win Over Percival Everett’s “James”
"Harvey’s tale of six fictional astronauts on the International Space Station was 'unanimously' chosen as the winner after a 'proper day' considering the six-strong...
How The Brothers Grimm Helped Create The Idea Of Germany
"As cultural detectives, they cast a wide net, creating a history for a nation that did not yet exist. The idea of one Germany...
Sticker Shock: Renovation Of Stuttgart’s Opera House Could Cost €2 Billion
The renovation and expansion of the venue will take four years longer than originally planned, and the cost, originally projected at under €1 billion,...
Philadelphia’s BalletX Is Bigger, Busier, And More Stable Than Ever
Thanks to a major bequest from this past summer, the company — founded 18 years ago as a shoestring summer operation — has moved...
At 77, Playwright David Hare Is In A Hurry
"I have written three new plays that are going to be on in different places and I have done that partly because of my...
Toronto’s Only Purpose-Built Dance Venue Will Close After 41 Years
The Fleck Dance Theatre, located within the Queen's Quay Terminal building at the Harbourfront Centre, will be shuttered at the end of next March...
Hulu Series About Amanda Knox Films In City Where It All Happened, And Locals...
The docudrama is being shot in Perugia, where Knox was studying in 2007 when her apartment-mate, Meredith Kercher, was murdered; Knox was wrongfully convicted...
Cleveland Voters Pass Cigarette Tax Increase To Fund Arts
Ballot Issue 55, which was approved by Cuyahoga County voters by an almost 3-to-1 margin, more than doubles the existing surcharge on tobacco products....
The Bells Of Notre-Dame In Paris Are Reunited
"The bronze bells of the Notre-Dame Cathedral have not pealed together since 2019, when a furious blaze consumed the centuries-old landmark right before the...
There Will Be No Liberal Equivalent Of Joe Rogan
"The impulse from liberals to replicate the juice by developing their own Rogan equivalent is understandable but ultimately myopic. The idea is little more...
Painter Frank Auerbach, 93
The child of Auschwitz victims, he was sent to Britain by the Kindertransport project and studied in London. After years of hardship, he got...
Huge Art Forgery Enterprise Busted By Italian Police
"The seizures in Italy, France, Spain and Belgium netted 2,100 fake works attributed to more than 30 famed artists, including Andy Warhol, Amedeo Modigliani,...
The Importance Of “The Importance Of Being Earnest”
"People have been arguing about the nature of the play ever since its 1895 premiere. Wilde himself described it as 'a delicate bubble of...
MacArthur “Genius” Violinist Johnny Gandelsman Has Commissioned A Multi-Composer Portrait Of America
The project, titled "This Is America," is a collection of 28 works Gandelsman has been commissioning, performing and recording since 2020. He gave the...
Even After 30 Years, People Talk About (And Buy Tickets For) Matthew Bourne’s Gender-Switched...
"Certain people found it difficult to accept Swan Lake in a new light," says Bourne. "There was some ballet snobbery when people would say...
Meet The Maestros Of Evil Doll Movies
In a Welsh seaside town, Geoff and Lawrence Fowler are turning out a series of surprisingly good low-budget features (e.g., Jack in the Box)...