Angelina Jolie went home empty-handed from the Golden Globes last night.
Her portrayal of Maria Callas was outvoted by Fernanda Torres in I’m Still Here.
The GGs are a dry run for the Oscars. None of the recent classical/opera exploitation films – Tar, Maestro, &c. – have won much at the industry ballots.
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The national company has replaced a Peter Grimes production in December with a topical new staging of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem. Alexander Joel conducts. The post Israel Opera stages War Requiem appeared […]
We have been notified of the death, on April 29 in Jerusalem, of the composer Paul Schoenefeld, who melded traditional Ashkenazi-Jewish music with western orchestral settings. Paul was 77. Before migrating to Israel, he was […]
Anna Netrebko and husband Yusif Eyvazov star in next week’s new production of Puccini’s Turandot at La Scala, directed by Davide Livermore. No doubt North Korea will be celebrating the cultural cooperation. The post The […]
