The Met Opera’s ‘Madama Butterfly’ Star Asmik Grigorian On Travel And Opera International operatic soprano Asmik Grigorian makes her Metropolitan Opera debut this spring, starring as Cio-Cio-San in Puccini's Madama Butterfly. 04/29/2024 - 8:42 am | View Link
How 1 Reaction to a Mural Tore a New England Town Apart Few were present at the select board meeting in Littleton, New Hampshire, in August when Carrie Gendreau, one of its members, began to talk about a mural that had recently been painted on the side of ... 04/28/2024 - 5:29 am | View Link
South African Opera Singer Innocent Masuku Impresses on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’: “This Is Amazing” Innocent Masuku recently wowed South Africa and the rest of the world with his 'Britain's Got Talent' performance. Mzansi sang his praises for a stellar show. 04/23/2024 - 9:45 pm | View Link
Soprano Asmik Grigorian makes Metropolitan Opera debut in Puccini's 'Madame Butterfly' Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian will make her Metropolitan Opera debut in "Madame Butterfly"; the International Opera Awards named her the 'best young female singer' of 2016. 04/23/2024 - 11:12 am | View Link
Happy to have taken the plunge In his younger days, Kevin Kunz cared more about picking up the spare than earning a standing ovation. Raised in Stow, near Akron, he was passionate about bowling but had ... 04/16/2024 - 12:54 am | View Link
April is to TV as November is to movies, with the Emmy eligibility deadline a month away and—hey, wait a second. Didn’t we just do the Emmys? Well, yes, the most recent Emmy Awards ceremony happened in January, but only because the actors’ and writers’ strikes delayed an event that was originally slated to happen in September 2023.
FREE STREAMING Freely, the new free streaming service backed by Britain’s public service broadcasters (PSBs) that delivers live TV over broadband, has launched. The initiative is from Everyone TV, the organization which runs free TV in the U. K. and is jointly owned by the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Paramount Global’s Channel 5. Announced last year, the service allows viewers […]
“Joyguru,” a fictionalized account of the life of Indian mystic artist and music icon Parvathy Baul, will launch sales at the upcoming Cannes Film Market. Parvathy Baul is a leading exponent of the syncretic Baul minstrel music tradition that is hugely popular and culturally influential across eastern India and Bangladesh.
Berlin-based sales agency Picture Tree Intl. has acquired the supernatural crime thriller “The Osha Rule,” and will start seeking distribution partner at the Cannes Film Market. The film will start principal photography in August 2024. “The Osha Rule” blends crime with supernatural horror and revolves around a young Latino gang member forced into a Santería […]
We don't think Gretchen Wieners' father, the inventor of Toaster Strudel, would be too pleased to hear that it's been a full 20 years since Mean Girls first entered our lives and the cultural
A distinctive, dynamic R&B vocalist who seemed on the verge of major stardom through the 1960s, Jackie Shane disappeared soon after — so completely that many fans and former associates assumed her dead. It was a riddle rendered all the more mysterious by her singular status within that field as a more-or-less “out” transperson, her […]