Category archives for: ARTS

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

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

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

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

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Soprano Karita Mattila has withdrawn from the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Verdi’s “Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball).”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

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 [...]

Book Talk: Museum conservator finds life in automaton

Author Peter Carey poses for a photograph in New York City

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 [...]

Telemann’s ‘Orpheus’ given staging by NYC Opera

In this May 10, 2012 photo provided by the New York City Opera, Nicholas Pallesen is in the role of Pluto, with Catherine Miller as Thanatos at a dress rehearsal of the New York City 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

NY’s Met Museum lets visitors climb to cloud nine

Go ahead. Poke your head in the clouds. Arts News Headlines – Yahoo! News

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

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