New York’s Metropolitan Opera just ended its first run of a brand new “Ring” cycle. Several years ago, the Met asked visionary playwright and theater director Robert Lepage to produce Wagner’s epic four-part “Ring of the Nibelungen.”
The World’s Adeline Sire was born in France, and she plans to vote in this weekend’s French presidential election. She has a snapshot of going to the polls in Massachusetts for the first round election two weeks ago.
Los Angeles-based filmmaker Taika Waititi talks about his Maori roots and the origins of his tribe in New Zealand.
Two weeks after winning a handful of gold statuettes in Hollywood for his French silent movie, “The Artist”, movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was awarded a silver medal in Paris [...]
Isabelle Eberhardt lived a wildly unconventional existence. She was a late 19th century explorer and writer, and an incredibly daring woman [...]
TJ Martin, co-director of this year’s Oscar winning documentary feature “Undefeated” was not the only one to drop a live “F Bomb” last Sunday night during his acceptance speech [...]
There used to be this traditional celebration in France on November 25th. It’s known as la Sainte Catherine [...]
Richard Savino founded his Baroque music ensemble El Mundo in 1999. The group plays Italian and Spanish music from the 17th to the 19th century.
Pianist and composer Malek Jandali says if Syria manages to free itself from dictatorship, it will once again create and innovate as it once did.
Anchor Marco Werman talks to Syrian composer Malek Jandali who based some of his recent compositions on the brutal events of the Syrian revolution.
Wednesday marks the anniversary of the start of the Egyptian uprising in Tahrir Square. Arab American composer, Mohammed Fairouz, who’s writing a concerto called “Tahrir for Clarinet and Orchestra.”
The piece is the first movement of what will become a concerto in three movements.
Dutch master harpsichordist Gustav Leonhardt, died at his home in Amsterdam at the age of 83, on January 16. Leonhardt was a pioneer of the Baroque music revival. He was a scholar, teacher and conductor. In the 1950s and 60s, at a time when musicians and classical music lovers paid rare attention to the Baroque repertoire [...]
At a time when musicians and classical music lovers paid scant attention to the baroque repertoire, Leonhardt made it his mission to bring it to life.
The World’s Adeline Sire profiles Sara Serpa, a Portuguese jazz singer, who became interested in travel literature soon after her arrival in New York City. Serpa’s new CD is called “Mobile.”
