“Artists must at least be tethered to some amount of demonstrable empathy lest they risk the perception of solipsism.”
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Following the successful launch of the new regular feature The Talk of the Town in January, the team at the box is inviting contributions for a new quarter of operatic potpourri.
“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.
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