The brilliant Bossa Nova pioneer has died in Los Angeles, aged 83. The cause, say his family, was long Covid.
Mendes settled in the US in the 1960s amid political and military turbulence in Brazil that saw him briefly arrested. His theme song (below) became an everlasting earworm.
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The Vienna State Opera has confirmed that Anna Netrebko will sing in German for the first time on its stage in January. She is cast as Prima Donna in Richard Strauss’s opera, Ariadne auf Naxos. […]
The funeral is taking place of the composer Sofia Gubaidulina, self-exiled from mother Russia and settled for the last quarter of her long life in the quietude of northern Germany. She is being buried in […]
Jean Cocteau’s 135th Birthday Click here to watch This week also marks the 135th birthday of Jean Cocteau, the celebrated French author, playwright, artist and director. Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – […]
