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a global recession is all but inevitable. and, the first woman to win the booker prize twice, have condemned the referendums being held in parts of ukraine to decide whether they want to join russia. it added the votes, which are being organised by moscow—backed officials, are a breach of the united nations charter. these are the four areas where voting is being held. they include occupied parts of luhansk and donetsk in the east, and zaporizhzhia and kherson, in the south, and cover around fifteen% of ukraine's territory. voting is expected to run until tuesday, and the result see...

Teatro Nuovo brightens New York City’s summer opera scene between the Metropolitan Opera’s spring closing and gala fall reopening.

Of course, there again, the cromwell story is the perfect vehicle for that because she is so interested in cromwell as a person who acquires such a tremendous amount of power and uses it to act on people. so, of course, the first two novels of the tudor trilogy show him wielding the power, using it first on catherine of aragon and then, ironically, on anne boleyn as well, so she is interested in both the power equation. and she evokes it in a very brilliant way. the imagination side of it, does that inbue the fact or does it not matter in terms of what she is presenting as a historical account...

Donizetti’s great opera is somewhat flawed in a new production in New York.

Dutch National Opera Presents DIE ERSTEN MENSCHEN This is the first time Die ersten Menschen is being performed in the Netherlands.by BWW News Desk This June, Dutch National Opera will present a new production of Die ersten Menschen by Rudi Stephan. The German composer (1887-1915) was only 28 years old when he died at the front in the First World War. He had just completed Die ersten Menschen at the time. The opera was given its posthumous world premiere in 1924 and has only been staged sporadically over the past century (the last time was in 1988). It can now be seen in the Netherlands for ...