Spirited singing fails to enliven Mozart opera
All the lovely singing fails to save the Vienna State Opera’s new production of Mozart’s “La Clemenza di Tito.” Arts News Headlines – Yahoo! News
May 18 2012 | Posted in ARTS | Read More »
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Warsaw fires architect of planned art museum
Officials have fired the Swiss architect tapped to design an ambitious museum of modern art in Poland’s capital, throwing the whole project off track. Arts News Headlines – Yahoo! News
May 18 2012 | Posted in ARTS | Read More »
German baritone opera singer Fischer-Dieskau dead
A German opera house says renowned baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau has died. He was 86. Arts News Headlines – Yahoo! News
May 18 2012 | Posted in ARTS | Read More »
Wayne Newton sued over Las Vegas home museum plans
A company that bought the rights to convert Wayne Newton’s Las Vegas home into a museum is suing the entertainer over allegations that he unreasonably delayed the project to ensure it never opens. Arts News Headlines – Yahoo! News
May 18 2012 | Posted in ARTS | Read More »
Mattila withdraws from new Met Opera ‘Ballo’
Soprano Karita Mattila has withdrawn from the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball).” Arts News Headlines – Yahoo! News
May 18 2012 | Posted in ARTS | Read More »
Canada museum kills masturbation video after outcry
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s federal science museum has removed an animated video showing youth masturbating from an upcoming sex exhibit following a public outcry, a museum spokesman said. The Canada Science and Technology Museum will open the “Sex: A Tell-all Exhibition” on Thursday as planned despite strong criticism from Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore, who [...]
May 17 2012 | Posted in ARTS | Read More »
Book Talk: Museum conservator finds life in automaton
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A museum conservator and horologist loses her colleague and married lover of 13 years, forcing her to use the intricate restoration of a 19th century automaton and the diaries of the man who commissioned it as the means to cope with her grief. Set in London in 2010, “The Chemistry of [...]
May 17 2012 | Posted in ARTS | Read More »
Telemann’s ‘Orpheus’ given staging by NYC Opera
No longer a major institution and now a shrunken, vagabond company, New York City Opera is ending its first season since departing Lincoln Center with a handsome staging of Georg Philipp Telemann’s “Orpheus,” a work premiered in 1726 that was long lost before it was rediscovered in 1978. Arts News Headlines – Yahoo! News
May 16 2012 | Posted in ARTS | Read More »
NY’s Met Museum lets visitors climb to cloud nine
Go ahead. Poke your head in the clouds. Arts News Headlines – Yahoo! News
May 16 2012 | Posted in ARTS | Read More »
NY’s Met Museum lets visitors climb to cloud 9
New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art is big on bubbles. Arts News Headlines – Yahoo! News
May 16 2012 | Posted in ARTS | Read More »
