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Covid-19 Arts and Culture “When can we reopen?” That’s the burning question on the lips of artists, audiences, and theatrical administrators around the world, as the Covid-19 pandemic continues to steamroll the performing arts. Virtually everywhere, the scene is bleak. A majority of performers are out of work and have been for nearly a year. Many, including even the internationally famous, are on unemployment, moving in with family, and thinking about alternative career paths. Companies t...

Today in Music History - Feb. 22 The Canadian Press 2021-02-22 Today in Music History for Feb. 22:   In 1952, bass singer Don Gerrard, a native of Vancouver, made his debut with the Canadian Opera Company as the Speaker in "The Magic Flute." He moved to England in 1961 to become principal bass of the Sadlers Wells company, but continued to return to Canada to perform. In 1965, "The Beatles" began filming "Help," their second movie, in the Bahamas. Other scenes were shot in England and Aust...

PALM BEACH, Feb 21 — With the pandemic forcing most stages to go virtual, the Palm Beach Opera is embracing its tropical weather and holding an outdoor festival. The company is expecting to host some 1,000 people per show at their series kicking off this weekend starting with the classic “La...

Arena rock? Palm Beach says try arena opera AFP 21/02/2021 AFP © CHANDAN KHANNA Attendees watch "La Boheme" in Palm Beach, where the company is holding a festival of pandemic-era outdoor shows With the pandemic forcing most stages to go virtual, the Palm Beach Opera is embracing its tropical weather and holding an outdoor festival. The company is expecting to host some 1,000 people per show at their series kicking off this weekend starting with the classic "La Boheme" -- th...

Exhibition at Mudam Luxembourg presents new and recent works by William Kentridge William Kentridge, Untitled, Leaning on Air, 2020. Courtesy the artist. LUXEMBOURG .-Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean is presenting William Kentridge (b. 1955, Johannesburg), one of the most acclaimed artists of our time. Over the past four decades William Kentridge has created a major oeuvre across various artistic disciplines including performance, theatre and opera. This exhibition conce...

"This really is where the eyes of the entire opera industry are looking."

Love, jealousy and magic will be on stage during Palm Beach Opera’s first opera festival. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the company moved its 2021 season from the Kravis Center to the iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre at the South Florida Fairgrounds in West Palm Beach to better allow for social distancing.  The company will perform Giacomo Puccinis "La Boheme" on Friday and Wednesday, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozarts "The Magic Flute" on Sunday and Feb. 26, and Ruggero Leoncavallos "Pagliacci" on ...

“I love how you pretend we don’t all live together,” returning co-host Noel Fielding fires back. It’s cake week and after new boy Lucas has trotted out his impressive Boris Johnson impersonation promising that “Phase 46” of his government’s Covid-19 strategy will “protect cake and save loaves”, as well as ensuring “the common-sense distribution of hundreds and thousands”, we’re off to the new Bake Off tent to debate the correct pronunciation of scones and meet the late...

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Imagine you are a young singer, hoping for a career in opera and youve worked hard enough, been good enough and had enough stamina to reach the finalist stage of a competition where youll be performing before a theater jammed with opera lovers. But now instead of facing a live audience at your big moment, you are instead greeted with facsimiles of people: 2D cardboard cutouts filling the seats as you sing two arias in the course of the evening before a panel of judges. The rewards are still th...