For her English National Opera debut, the company’s new artistic leader, Annilese Miskimmon, has chosen a work she hopes can bring in a new audience.
Author: ALEX MARSHALL
For This Opera Director, a Lot Is Riding on a ‘Handmaid’s Tale’
For her English National Opera debut, the company’s new artistic leader, Annilese Miskimmon, has chosen a work she hopes can bring in a new audience.
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Novels by Olga Tokarczuk, Mieko Kawakami and Claudia Piñeiro are in the running for the prestigious award for translated fiction.
British Museum to Remove Sackler Name From Its Walls
The decision comes just months after the Metropolitan Museum of Art said it would remove the family’s name from seven exhibition spaces.
Olga Smirnova, Opposed to the Ukraine War, Quits the Bolshoi
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Ukraine’s National Anthem Reverberates Around the World
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An Exiled Theater With a Warning for Europe
The Belarus Free Theater’s members fled repression at home. The company’s latest show imagines a nightmare future of authoritarian Russian rule.
‘Cabaret,’ Starring Eddie Redmayne, Leads Olivier Award Nominees
A revival of the 1966 musical, with Jessie Buckley as Sally Bowles, is up for 11 awards at Britain’s equivalent of the Tonys.
Russian Filmmakers and Other Artists Face Boycotts Over Ukraine
A Russian moviemaker with Ukrainian roots and relatives in Kyiv denounced the war. The Glasgow Film Festival dropped his film anyway.