Review: SAN DIEGO OPERA'S MADAMA BUTTERFLY at San Diego Civic Center Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is one of the most popular operas ever written. It has a wonderfully lyrical score, familiar arias and a story that remains compelling even after often heard. San Diego ... 05/3/2024 - 9:40 am | View Link
John Adams: Girls of the Golden West review — can this opera take off? How could Adams say no? The opera Girls of the Golden West — far from a sneeze at 126 minutes — is the latest result, though it follows six years after the work premiered in 2017. Critics ... 04/24/2024 - 5:12 am | View Link
The best web browsers for 2024 If you like the sound of this, download the Firefox browser today. Another venerable browser and popular alternative, the Opera browser shares much of Chrome’s DNA and deserves its place as one ... 04/23/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian makes belated Metropolitan Opera debut as Madame Butterfly In this image provided by the Met Opera, soprano Asmik Grigorian prepares for her Metropolitan Opera debut during a rehearsal for Puccini’s “Madame Butterfly.” (Jonathan Tichler/Met Opera ... 04/23/2024 - 6:24 am | View Link
How Opera’s Crisis Can Become an Opera Renaissance Opera stands at a critical juncture. Opera America’s 2023 Annual Field Report reveals an alarming reality: a 27 percent drop in attendance and a 20 percent decline in productivity compared to ... 04/8/2024 - 9:01 pm | View Link
During a Distribution Advocates podcast recording at Hot Docs, producer/director Amy Hobby announced a new documentary $200,000 grant called The Marketing Innovations Fund, which will go to independent distributors. Hobby co-founded Distribution Advocates in 2020 alongside Abby Sun, Avril Speaks, Carlos Gutierrez and Karin Chien. The organization “works to collectively reclaim power for independent storytellers […]
It was the elevator ride that went down…in history.
Ten years ago, on May 5, 2014, Beyoncé boarded a lift with her husband Jay-Z and her sister Solange Knowles during a Met Gala after-party at The
Pauly Shore once again addressed his in-development Richard Simmons biopic that has become a hot topic. “I’m also gonna be starring in the Richard Simmons biopic…whether he likes it or not, Richard,” Shore said at his Netflix Is a Joke show at the Comedy Store Friday night in Los Angeles.
Less than 15 hours before it was scheduled to begin, Lovers & Friends Festival 2024 has been canceled due to “dangerous weather,” said event organizers in a post to their website. The one-day festival, which was supposed to begin at noon on Saturday in Las Vegas, was shaping up to be a millennial mixtape dream […]
The war of words wages on between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, and this time it’s personal. After the latter released his new diss track entitled “6:16 in LA” earlier this morning, both rappers dropped response tracks, one after the other, on Friday night (May 3), with Drake putting out “Family Matters” and Lamar releasing “Meet […]
Los Angeles is not the first city fans would associate with comedian John Mulaney. That would be Chicago, his hometown and the backdrop to innumerable childhood anecdotes in his stand-up act, or New York, where he broke out as a writer on “Saturday Night Live” and shot a special at Radio City Music Hall.