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Xian Zhang to become music director of Seattle Symphony starting with 2025-26 season
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Xian Zhang to become music director of Seattle Symphony starting with 2025-26 season

Associated Press  

Xian Zhang was hired Thursday as music director of the Seattle Symphony, becoming the first woman conductor to head a major West Coast orchestra and filling a post that had been vacant since Thomas Dausgaard quit abruptly in January 2022. “It felt in a way musically speaking that we’re really on the same page and speaking the same language.” Zhang …

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Xian Zhang to become music director of Seattle Symphony starting with 2025-26 season
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Xian Zhang to become music director of Seattle Symphony starting with 2025-26 season

The Independent  

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You can help name L.A.’s newest dinosaur fossil. Just don’t call it Dino McDinoface
6 months, 1 week ago

You can help name L.A.’s newest dinosaur fossil. Just don’t call it Dino McDinoface

LA Times  

A rendering of the new dinosaur display at the Natural History Museum. How to vote Online poll is open to name Natural History Museum dinosaur fossil The voting is open until Thursday, June 20. “We want the people of Los Angeles to feel that this completely unique green giant is theirs, because it is,” said Lori Bettison-Varga, president and director …

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No. 3 NC State bounces back from loss to No. 16 Virginia Tech with 83-47 win over Pitt
10 months, 1 week ago

No. 3 NC State bounces back from loss to No. 16 Virginia Tech with 83-47 win over Pitt

Associated Press  

PITTSBURGH — The Atlantic Coast Conference is as unrelenting this season as it ever has been in No. “We said all season ‘take it one game at a time’ and you can’t let one game set you back,” said center River Baldwin, who had 15 points, seven rebounds and three blocks. Madison Hayes led N.C. State with 16 points, though …

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Meet the new Smorgasburg L.A. vendors for 2024 — including the Cambodian cowboy
11 months, 1 week ago

Meet the new Smorgasburg L.A. vendors for 2024 — including the Cambodian cowboy

LA Times  

Smorgasburg LA general manager Zach Brooks curates the annual roster of pop-ups, restaurants and other food specialists who appear at the weekly food festival. With the 2024 debut last Sunday of Smorgasburg Los Angeles, the L.A. Times 101 Best Restaurants-awarded festival introduced sellers that run the gamut from recognizable names and restaurants to chefs new to L.A.’s food scene. Chad …

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Belgrade Philharmonic wows NCPA audience in Beijing
1 year, 1 month ago

Belgrade Philharmonic wows NCPA audience in Beijing

China Daily  

Under the baton of the legendary conductor Neeme Jarvi, the Belgrade Philharmonic held a concert at the National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing on Tuesday and was given a ten-minute standing ovation after the performance of compositions by Verdi, Tchaikovsky and Berlioz. Program editors Asja Radonjic and Danica Maksimovic participated in a panel discussion on the topic of establishing …

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Belgrade Philharmonic wows NCPA audience in Beijing
1 year, 1 month ago

Belgrade Philharmonic wows NCPA audience in Beijing

China Daily  

Under the baton of the legendary conductor Neeme Jarvi, the Belgrade Philharmonic held a concert at the National Center for Performing Arts in Beijing on Tuesday and was given a ten-minute standing ovation after the performance of compositions by Verdi, Tchaikovsky and Berlioz. Program editors Asja Radonjic and Danica Maksimovic participated in a panel discussion on the topic of establishing …

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Intergenerational music-making: 'We gain strength from the people we get to be with'
1 year, 6 months ago

Intergenerational music-making: 'We gain strength from the people we get to be with'

LA Times  

Time was running out. “I was here volunteering as a stagehand, and I liked how the music sounded,” the middle schooler said, adding that she’s inspired by the older members of the orchestra. It’s amazing.” Oscar Cuellar, 19, noted: “It’s a bond I don’t experience anywhere else.” At 14, Maya is one of the youngest performers with the HOLA orchestra. …

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Jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard's unexpected path into the opera house
1 year, 8 months ago

Jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard's unexpected path into the opera house

NPR  

Jazz trumpeter Terence Blanchard's unexpected path into the opera house In September of 2021 at the Metropolitan Opera's gala opening night, the curtain rose not on Puccini or Verdi, but on an opera by the American jazz trumpeter and film score composer Terence Blanchard. It was the first time in the Met's 138-year history that America's leading opera house presented …

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A classic double Grammy
1 year, 10 months ago

A classic double Grammy

China Daily  

Conductor Zhang Xian, currently in her seventh season as music director of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, is one of the world's few prominent female conductors. In 2015, Zhang became the first female principal guest conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and she was appointed as the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's music director in 2016. On Jan 21, …

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A classic double Grammy
1 year, 10 months ago

A classic double Grammy

China Daily  

Conductor Zhang Xian, currently in her seventh season as music director of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, is one of the world's few prominent female conductors. In 2015, Zhang became the first female principal guest conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and she was appointed as the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's music director in 2016. On Jan 21, …

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More than 2,000 flights canceled amid workers’ strike at seven German airports
1 year, 10 months ago

More than 2,000 flights canceled amid workers’ strike at seven German airports

LA Times  

Employees at seven German airports went on strike Friday, forcing the cancellation of more than 2,300 flights. The strikes at seven German airports, including Frankfurt, Munich and Hamburg, affected almost 300,000 passengers and forced airlines to cancel more than 2,300 flights. Christine Behle of the Verdi labor union told public broadcaster RBB-Inforadio that failure to reach a meaningful deal with …

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A voice held in high esteem
2 years, 4 months ago

A voice held in high esteem

China Daily  

Liu Shen is an in-demand specialist singer performing worldwide. As a child, Liu had his first experience with opera at the age of 4, when his mother took him to La Traviata, the three-act opera by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. Sitting in the Century Theater in Beijing, Liu, to his mother's surprise, was soon captivated by the opera, which featured …

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A voice held in high esteem
2 years, 4 months ago

A voice held in high esteem

China Daily  

Liu Shen is an in-demand specialist singer performing worldwide. As a child, Liu had his first experience with opera at the age of 4, when his mother took him to La Traviata, the three-act opera by Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. Sitting in the Century Theater in Beijing, Liu, to his mother's surprise, was soon captivated by the opera, which featured …

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Shaanxi Opera House to celebrate anniversary with new lineup
2 years, 5 months ago

Shaanxi Opera House to celebrate anniversary with new lineup

China Daily  

Dream of the Red Chamber, a dance drama by Jiangsu Center for the Performing Arts. Audiences will enjoy theatrical productions all under the title of Dream of the Red Chamber, such as a Chinese play by Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, a dance drama by Jiangsu Center for the Performing Arts, a ballet production by the National Ballet of China and …

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Shaanxi Opera House to celebrate anniversary with new lineup
2 years, 5 months ago

Shaanxi Opera House to celebrate anniversary with new lineup

China Daily  

Dream of the Red Chamber, a dance drama by Jiangsu Center for the Performing Arts. Audiences will enjoy theatrical productions all under the title of Dream of the Red Chamber, such as a Chinese play by Shanghai Dramatic Arts Center, a dance drama by Jiangsu Center for the Performing Arts, a ballet production by the National Ballet of China and …

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US soprano, offended by blackface, pulls out of Italy opera
2 years, 5 months ago

US soprano, offended by blackface, pulls out of Italy opera

Associated Press  

ROME — Soprano Angel Blue says she won’t perform in an opera in Italy this month because blackface was used in the staging of a different work this summer on the same stage. The U.S. singer posted a note on her angeljoyblue Instagram page saying she will be bowing out of “La Traviata” at Verona’s Arena this month because the …

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Security Staff Strike in Germany Causes Hundreds of Flights to be Cancelled
2 years, 9 months ago

Security Staff Strike in Germany Causes Hundreds of Flights to be Cancelled

News 18  

Airlines cancelled hundreds of flights to and from German airports on Monday as security workers went on strike amid a wage dispute. Security workers staged a full-day walkout at six airports including Duesseldorf, Cologne/Bonn and Berlin on Monday, and one-day strikes have also been called for other airports on Tuesday including Frankfurt and Hamburg. Tuesday’s walkout will hit Germany’s busiest …

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Masked Milanese fill La Scala for gala premiere of ‘Macbeth’
3 years ago

Masked Milanese fill La Scala for gala premiere of ‘Macbeth’

Associated Press  

MILAN — Milanese turned out in all their finery for La Scala’s gala season opener of Verdi’s “Macbeth” in a fully seated theater, a welcome return after the pandemic made last year’s premiere a televised-only affair and as many European theaters remain closed. The appreciative crowd showered flowers from the La Scala’s tiered balconies on the opera’s stars, baritone Luca …

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Despite pandemic, famed Italian theater opens season
3 years ago

Despite pandemic, famed Italian theater opens season

Associated Press  

MILAN — While many European theaters remain closed due to the pandemic, the famed Teatro alla Scala on Tuesday opened its new season with the gala premiere of Verdi’s “Macbeth” to a fully seated house. “Macbeth” completed music director Riccardo Chailly’s trilogy of young Verdi opera’s after “Giovanna d’Arca” in 2015 and “Attila” in 2018. “We worked to make a …

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Dutch trail on plans to donate vaccines, less than 10% of target met so far
3 years, 2 months ago

Dutch trail on plans to donate vaccines, less than 10% of target met so far

Dutch News  

The Netherlands has so far only shipped 2.15 million coronavirus vaccines to developing countries, less than 10% of its target 27 million doses before the end of the year. Most – 21 million – should have been distributed through the international Covax programme, set up and supported by the European Commission and Bill Gates, while the rest would be donated …

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Dutch trail on plans to donate vaccines, less than 10% of target met so far
3 years, 2 months ago

Dutch trail on plans to donate vaccines, less than 10% of target met so far

Dutch News  

The Netherlands has so far only shipped 2.15 million coronavirus vaccines to developing countries, less than 10% of its target 27 million doses before the end of the year. Most – 21 million – should have been distributed through the international Covax programme, set up and supported by the European Commission and Bill Gates, while the rest would be donated …

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Met Opera reopens with landmark first show by Black composer
3 years, 2 months ago

Met Opera reopens with landmark first show by Black composer

Live Mint  

After an 18-month shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic and protracted labor disputes with its musicians and crew, the Metropolitan Opera reopened Monday with a history-making debut—the first work by a Black composer. Fire Shut Up In My Bones, a poignant opera centered on the tension of growing up a Black man in the American South, was composed by Terence …

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Terence Blanchard Makes History At The Metropolitan Opera
3 years, 2 months ago

Terence Blanchard Makes History At The Metropolitan Opera

NPR  

Terence Blanchard Makes History At The Metropolitan Opera Enlarge this image toggle caption Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera History is being made tonight at New York's Metropolitan Opera: For the first time in 138 years, the eminent company will present an opera by a Black composer. Enlarge this image toggle caption Henry Abenejo/courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera Henry Abenejo/courtesy …

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