The Metropolitan Opera has agreed to play three weeks each winter in Saudi Arabia in a deal said to be worth $100 million a year. Without it, the company was going to the wall, drawing […]
Oliver Mears, director of the Royal Opera at Covent Garden, has emailed an explanation to staff as to why he attemped to remove a Palestine flag from one of the extras during curtain-calls for Il […]
The numeral 2025 is 45 x 45, a rare, square event in the calendar. The last such year was 1936, which was 44 x 44. Before that, 1849 Then 1764. The post It’s a square […]