Next year Roberto Bolle turns 50: “The milestone of 50 eventually becomes a point of pride, the pride of saying how old I am, and to bring those years to the stage.”
Jonas Kaufmann says that La Scala and Santa Cecilia are the only two important music centres left in Italy, Too many theatres have closed in the last few years; a real shame. Which theatres he’s thinking about isn’t clear, for although many (of the many) Italian opera houses are having financial troubles, none of major…
The 50th annual World Theatre Day, which is March 27, will see John Malkovich give the opening address which will make him the first American actor to do so. He will deliver this year’s message at the headquarters of UNESCO in Paris on March 22. Jean Cocteau delivered the first World Theatre Day message in 1962, and the list…
Q&A When did you start dancing? I started when I was 10 years old at the Teatro San Carlo ballet school in Naples. Why did you start dancing? My elder brother Raffaele took me to the audition and I fell in love with ballet immediately. Till then I had no idea of what ballet was….
Ildebrando D’Arcangelo is in the City of Angels appearing in “Così fan Tutte” at the Los Angeles Opera. The bass-baritone “projects a swaggering confidence and dangerous sex appeal” says the Los Angeles Times, acquiring “fans around the world as much for his voice as for his model looks”. He appears tall on stage because of…
On Friday, John Malkovich opens in The Infernal Comedy at the Barbican, London. He’s playing Austrian serial killer, Jack Unterweger, the celebrity killer-author, accompanied by a baroque orchestra and two sopranos, singing arias by Beethoven, Haydn, Weber and Mozart; the beauty of their voices and the music help to invest the victims of Unterweger’s murderous game with the dignity he denied…
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