On Sept 25 #MaestroMuti visited the Illinois Youth Center in Chicago to share classical music with the young men. pic.twitter.com/w6qqxZ59Sz — Chicago Symphony (@chicagosymphony) September 29, 2016 Riccardo Muti, Joyce DiDonato and Eric Owens, together with musicians from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, gave a concert at Illinois Youth Center-Chicago last Sunday. For Muti it was his second time at the facility…
Giuseppe Picone has been appointed the new Director of the Ballet Company of the prestigious Teatro San Carlo in Naples. A panel consisting of Anna Razzi, Mauricio Weinrot and Eric Vu-An chose Picone who, by elegant coincidence, was born in Naples. A homecoming. 40-year-old Picone seems precisely at the right point in his career to assume…
The English National Ballet‘s Emerging Dancer competition at the London Palladium, now in its seventh year, will this year be live streamed for the first time. The broadcast will be in partnership with ArtStreamingTV on Tuesday 17 May 2016. It will be possible to watch the full programme of performances, as well as interviews from…
Alastair Marriott‘s new work Connectome gets its world première as the centrepiece of the final programme of the Royal Ballet Season. It is sandwiched between two light-hearted classics: Ashton’s The Dream and Robbin’s The Concert. Connectome is Marriott’s first commission for The Royal Ballet since Trespass, part of Monica Mason’s farewell project Titian 2012. The name of the work describes the comprehensive map of the neural connections in…
Verbling is a web-based platform where individuals can pair up with native speakers to practice speaking new languages on live video, reports Mashable. Verbling was launched in 2011 when co-founders Jacob Jolis and Mikael Bernstein met while attending Stanford University. The two dropped out of the prestigious school and teamed up with then-Google software engineer…
The United Nations cultural agency UNESCO and the Italian government have agreed to join forces to restore rain-damaged Pompeii. UNESCO said it would work with Italy over the next nine months to rebuild villas and other parts of the famed Roman site that have collapsed over the last year. Under the deal, UNESCO will provide…
David I. Mitchell, who did the scenic design for more than 30 Broadway shows, was nominated for seven Tony Awards and won two, died of cancer on yesterday, October 3, in Los Angeles. He was 79. His Tony-nominated shows were “Barnum”, “Annie”, “Trelawny of the Wells”, “Working”, “Can-Can”, “Foxfire” and “The Boys of Winter”. Other Broadway work…
Madonna is eyeing a house in the northern Italian city of Verona, local sources said Tuesday. “I confirm the American pop star’s interest but I cannot add anything else,” said Milan realtor Alessandro Proto, known for selling a villa to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in Valpolicella, near Verona, and a penthouse outside Turin to…
Deborah Bull, ex-Principal Dancer with The Royal Ballet and now Creative Director of the Royal Opera House, has written a book, The Everyday Dancer, which is to be published October 6. The publisher’s blurb says, The Everyday Dancer is a new and honest account of the business of dancing from a writer with first hand…
Italy’s first openly lesbian MP, Paola Concia, married in Frankfurt Friday, the first time an Italian politician has married someone of the same sex. Concia, gay spokesperson for the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), exchanged vows with Ricarda Trautmann, a criminologist from Cologne, Germany. Concia said she would have tied the knot “sooner” but a “pile”…
Italian archaeologists have discovered a sacred mountain where ancient Etruscans worshipped gods and burned sacred objects in their honour during the Bronze Age 3000 years ago. Experts from the Archeological Superintendency for southern Etruria and La Sapienza University in Rome found the site at Mount Cimino near Viterbo, 80 km north of Rome. The discovery is…
A lapse in Lindsay Lohan’s health insurance – because she’s not been working in the past year – has prevented her from paying for the psychological counseling ordered as part of her probation, her lawyer revealed in court yesterday. “Maybe she knows somebody who can help out,” Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Stephanie Sautner said,…
A new study by psychologists at the University of Toronto and Tufts University shows that a woman can more accurately identify a man’s sexual orientation when looking at his face, when she is closest to her time of peak ovulation. Further, having romantic thoughts or a mating goal heightens a woman’s ability to discriminate between…
Four performances of Romeo and Juliet might not sound much, but if you’re performing them at London’s O2 Arena that means you need to sell an awful lot of tickets – think of it as an equivalent of 40 nights at the Royal Opera House. Ballet fans alone won’t fill it, neither will curious tourists…
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) has asked a Houston Fox affiliate for a formal apology after it aired a “Is TV Too Gay?” segment following last week’s 90-minute Lady Gaga–themed episode. The segment zeroed in on the pretty gay Glee, asking whether it “delve[s] too much into homosexual relationships.” And Fox host…
Just over 23 years ago, Stephen Evans, a corporate stockbroker bored with City life, took a punt on a promising young actor called Kenneth Branagh. With no previous experience in the arts, Evans put up £10,000 to launch Branagh as a theatrical impresario having read about him in a newspaper article. As Thor is about to…
Terry Gilliam’s production of The Damnation of Faust is about to open at the English National Opera – here are some of his comments about opera, Faust and directing opera: “The operas I went to when I was younger were tedious, so I was never lured back.” “People have been badgering me for years to do…
“I just loved Martha, although she was difficult and outrageous. It’s not a well-known fact about her, but she could be very funny. We’d laugh and laugh at rehearsals. I still think about her. She left an indelible impression on me.” – Taylor, now 80, remembering Graham
Director, Sir Trevor Nunn, and his actress wife, Imogen Stubbs, have separated after 21 years together. The couple, who have two children, split after Miss Stubbs, 50, admitted that she had been in a relationship with another man “for a while”. In a statement issued through her agent, she said: “After 21 wonderful years together, very…
Comedy writer Sol Saks, who created the 1960s US sitcom Bewitched, has died aged 100. He died on Saturday of respiratory failure as a result of pneumonia at a Los Angeles hospital, his wife told the Los Angeles Times. Starring Elizabeth Montgomery as a witch who marries a mortal man, Bewitched ran from 1964 to…
Samuel L Jackson is to make his debut on Broadway this autumn, playing Martin Luther King Jr in a play first staged in London in 2009. Written by Katori Hall, The Mountaintop depicts the civil rights leader on the night before his 1968 assassination.Producers Jean Doumanian and Sonia Friedman said they were “thrilled” and “honoured”…
Like a flash mob they came at 24 hours’ notice to hear Daniel Barenboim at Tate Modern, celebrating 60 years of public performance – and incidentally promoting three new releases from Universal Classics – says Barry Millington in The London Evening Standard. On the Bridge and round the Gallery of the Turbine Hall sat or…
Daniel Catán, the composer of the opera “Il Postino,” which opened the current season at Los Angeles Opera, died unexpectedly Sunday in Austin, Texas. He was 62. Catán lived in South Pasadena with his wife but was teaching for a semester at the University of Texas at Austin. He had been commissioned by the university’s Butler…
Responding to claims that Black Swan star Natalie Portman didn’t do the majority of her on-screen dancing in her Oscar-winning role, director Darren Aronofsky released the following statement through studio Fox Searchlight: “Here is the reality. I had my editor count shots. There are 139 dance shots in the film. 111 are Natalie Portman untouched….
“I think directing and choreographing have such a similarity: how to work with movement and motion and narration and emotion and creating images…. And I think having the ability to control the viewer’s perspective on the movement… it’s heaven.”
This pair of ballet shoes which I wore to perform my first Tatiana in Onegin, when I was 20, lasted only two days. If I’m not performing on stage they can last up to two months. I constantly sew on ribbons and repair my ballet shoes to make them last longer. There is a huge…
“He’s so incredibly loving and sensitive. He really is. He is the most loved actor I have ever worked with on a movie. And he’s not saintly, and he’s got a big mouth, and he’ll do gross things your nephew would do. But I knew the minute I met him that I would love him…
“No one has ever hired me to take my clothes off and be sexy. No one. Not even when I was 25. But I’m funnier than I am sexy, so I’m hired to make jokes about sex; I’m not hired to do sex.”
“You have only so many variables you can hold in your brain. If those variables are stage elements, one must be actively engaged with all of them to draw a rich experience from a show. If the music and dance are somehow synchronized and coherent, they become one entity. If the tempo of the music…
At about the age of 15, my sister and I joined the local Big Little Theatre Company, and I learnt to stand in front of an audience and perform. It was also where I started to use my voice. We would sing cabaret. Because of our mother, [a dance teacher], we had danced our whole…
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