There are many artworks entitled The Kiss – Rodin, Klimt, Toulouse-Lautrec, etc – but this one is remarkable for being the very first on-screen kiss. It happened in April 1896, between actors May Irwin and John Rice, in Thomas Edison’s short film, called, not surprisingly, The Kiss.
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Enchanting German performance of the West Side Story suite. The post The maestro dances appeared first on Slippedisc.
The death has been reported in Bologna of the effulgent tenor Romano Emili, a revered and popular figure on Italian stages and in the former East Germany. He retired that magnificent voice in 2004. The […]
The peripatetic pianist, presently on tour with the London Symphony Orchestra, has erased her global management Intermusica from her website. Intermusica, who have yet to remove her from their artists list, are not responding to […]
