“Artists must at least be tethered to some amount of demonstrable empathy lest they risk the perception of solipsism.”
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“Camilla hopes the new work will make opera ‘more mainstream.'”
The abrupt withdrawal of Katharina Wagner from an abridged seven-hour Ring cycle she was to direct at the Teatro Colon last year prompted no shortage of scorn and Schadenfreude.
And then she was all like, “Nuh-uh! Igor was so not gay,” and I was all like…
Our Own JJ (pictured) joins in the debate over the Düsseldorf Tannhäuser with Anne Midgette and John Berry.
Yes, in this interview with Naomi Lewin, the word “fiasco” gets thrown around a lot.
The controversy over the demise of Brad Wilber‘s Met Futures site goes mainstream, thanks to (who else?) Zachary Woolfe.
La Cieca’s old, old, old friend Zachary Woolfe will take to the airwaves tomorrow morning to discuss, among other less titillating topics, the controversial omission of pastied boobage from the Met’s impending HD of Les Contes d’Hoffmann. You can hear Zack on WQXR’s Arts File at 8:30am, on 105.9FM or wqxr.org.
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