We've seen their portraits countless times. VLAD THE IMPALER Vlad III was the three-time ruler of Wallachian and is said to have been the inspiration for author Bram Stoker's 1897 gothic novel ‘Dracula’ Vlad III, also known as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula, was the three-time ruler of Wallachian and was later the inspiration for Irish author Bram Stoker's …
It’s a striking image — a young Black man dressed in a waistcoat and silk breeches, his hair braided in cornrows, holds a violin, the bow slung over his shoulder, with the title “chevalier” emblazoned below his feet. This is a story that’s been crushed under the brutal wheel of history, war and racism, and the film, “Chevalier,” about the …
Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was an extraordinarily accomplished man in Marie Antoinette’s France. It’s his story — or a fictionalized version of it with the requisite drama, romance, scandal and tears to fill in the many gaps in his biography — that’s told in the new film “Chevalier,” which opens in theaters this week with Kelvin Harrison Jr. …
The Würzburg Mozart Festival's artistic director, Evelyn Meining, wanted to focus the 2022 edition on innovative and boundary-pushing elements. In this episode, we'll listen to Andrew Manze conducting the Bamberg Symphony performing Igor Stravinsky's Concerto in D, at the opening concert of the 2022 Würzburg Mozart Festival on May 21. Würzburg festival director Evelyn Meining tells us more: "Mozart's father, …
