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Germany Takes Care Of Its Opera Houses, Even Through COVID — But There’s A...
"'What we learned in the crisis was that the public purse was very much willing to keep alive in Germany,' says Dieter Haselbach,...
Amsterdam Branch Of The Hermitage In Danger Of Closing Permanently
"After laying off 25% of its full-time staff, including those who had been there since opening day," the only Western European satellite of the...
France’s Cultural Venues Get An Official Reopening Date
"Museums, theatres, cinemas and concert halls will reopen on May 19, along with non-essential shops and outdoor seating at cafes and restaurants, Macron...
Scottish Government Ordered To Reconsider Six-Foot-Distance Reopening Rule After Arts Groups Rebel
Following a personal intervention by the culture minister, "controversial new guidelines which will force Scotland's arenas, concert halls and comedy clubs to impose two...
Is Music Universal Or Not? Depends On What You Mean
Kevin Berger: "In the past two years, the debate over whether music is universal, or even whether that debate has merit, has raged like...
The Young Pipsqueak Professor Who Changed The Way Everyone Thought About Homer’s Epics
"Milman Parry was arguably the most important American classical scholar of the 20th century, by one reckoning 'the Darwin of Homeric Studies.' At age...
Because Of COVID, TV Production Had To Change The Way It Works. Some Of...
"It has been a year of struggle and experimentation for the television industry, which has had to learn on the fly while trying to...
Play Something, Netflix’s New Weapon Against Viewers’ Decision Fatigue
"Today, the company is launching Play Something, a new viewing mode designed to make it easier for the indecisive among us to quickly find...
Even Square Dancing Has Gone Onto Zoom
"Contra and square dancing involve lots of other people, not just a single partner. Dancing involves live music, played with precision. It involves callers...
‘Live Shows Are About To Come Roaring Back To Full Houses’, Says One Critic
Chris Jones: "There's real evidence now of pent-up demand. Consider what is happening in Las Vegas. Cirque du Soleil, which has emerged from bankruptcy...
That Long-Awaited Final Sondheim Musical? It’s Not Coming
The show, titled Buñuel and based on that filmmaker's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Exterminating Angel, had been in development with...
Florida Boosts Arts Funding by 24%
"The 2021-22 budget plan agreed to by the Florida House and Senate and sent to Gov. Ron DeSantis includes $26.7 million in two of...
As Western Museums Prepare To Return Benin Bronzes, Nigeria Prepares Their New Home
"The Legacy Restoration Trust … was set up by Nigeria's National Commission for Museums and Monuments, the Edo State government and the royal court...
Medieval Treasures Stolen In 1989 Recovered In Sicily
"After being stolen more than 30 years ago from a village in Italy's Tuscany region, a group of stolen medieval artifacts has been located...
Paul Kellogg, Director Of Glimmerglass Opera And New York City Opera, Dead At 84
Over 27 years at the helm of the summer opera festival in Cooperstown, NY, Kellogg raised standards, doubled the productions per season, built a...
Back From The Brink Of Collapse, Australia’s Leading Professional Vocal Ensemble Is Hard At...
Just two years ago, out of cash, The Song Company entered liquidation bankruptcy; it was rescued by a donor a month later. Then came...
Engagement Readiness Quiz
The verdict in the George Floyd murder trial provides your arts organization with an opportunity to take a very simple quiz to determine its...
CultureGrrl, the Metropolitan Museum & the Bomb Scare
At this writing, the Metropolitan Museum is safe and so am I. That said, for a brief time during my visit there Monday afternoon,...
Honkaku: The Japanese Detective Novels Catching On In English
"Honkaku translates as 'orthodox', and refers to the crafting of fiendishly clever and complex puzzle scenarios – such as a murder in a locked...
The Forgotten Female Playwrights (150 Of Them!) Of 17th- and 18th-Century France
"Now a growing movement within French theater is reclaiming the work of forgotten female artists, and reviving a lost concept along the way: le...
Why Viewers With Thousands Of Options Are Choosing To Stream Old TV Series
The Office and The Sopranos were two of the biggest hits of 2020, according to streaming services, which have recently paid hundreds of millions...
Indian-American Calls For Paris Opera Ballet To Cancel ‘La Bayadère’
Rajan Zed, an advocate and the founder of the Reno-based Universal Society of Hinduism, has previously called on other companies, including Houston Ballet, the...
The Birth Of The Paid Claque (Annals Of Opera History)
Back in the early 19th century, "the directors of the Paris Opera saw no reason to leave the success of their performances up to...
Theodore Lambrinos, Prolific Baritone, Dead Of COVID At 85
A longtime soloist at the Met and a mainstay of New York Grand Opera's summertime productions in Central Park, "over his 60-year career he...
Using Origami To Create Emergency Shelter For Disasters
A team of applied mathematics specialists at Harvard spent three years of calculations and trial-and-error to design a lightweight plastic structure that's about the...
