“The director of Russia’s Bolshoi theatre vowed Wednesday to bring an end to the bitter infighting that culminated in an acid attack on its artistic director and create a ‘normal artistic atmosphere’ at the legendary institution.”
Berlin’s Influential Culture Secretary Resigns In Tax Scandal
“As Berlin’s cultural affairs secretary, a post he has held since 2006, Andre Schmitz was responsible for one of the largest culture budgets in Europe.”
After Uproar, Portugal’s Auction of Miró Works Cancelled
Just hours before Christie’s was set to begin its auction in London, the house withdrew 85 works by the Catalan Surrealist. The Portuguese government inherited the art from a failed bank and had hoped to use the sale proceeds to pay down debt – until an outcry arose.
What Do Theatre Audiences Want? Are Theatres Afraid to Ask?
A former chief of the Royal Shakespeare Company says “she and others had [at one point] been keen to organise large meetings of RSC audiences in Stratford and London and simply ask them what they wanted. The meetings never took place, because fear intervened. What if the audience wanted something that the RSC’s artistic team did not want to give them?”
Minnesota Orchestra Returns to Rehearsals After Long Lockout
“They will no doubt make beautiful music together at homecoming concerts this weekend. But offstage, tensions linger.”
Could Robert Frost’s Letters Repair His Reputation?
As information about the poet’s life came out in the years after his death in 1963, his image changed from New England country sage to jealous and cruel egomaniac. Yet one of the editors of Frost’s correspondence says that what we’ll find there is “mostly … a generosity of spirit.”