Thick air in the ivory tower: KHM director Haag under pressure
The announcement of a new management position brings the General Director into difficulty. With the donor Ronald S. Lauder, however, she achieved a sponsorship coup...
After disembarkation: Budapest theater students graduate abroad
Budapest – After the Budapest University of Theater and Film Arts (SZFE) was taken over by a government-affiliated foundation, around 150 students can complete their studies in four European countries, including Austria. For example, the Mozarteum in Salzburg also wants to accept Hungarian students, as the SZFE student representative...
US star conductor James Levine has died
New York – There are recordings of Wagner’s Parsifal in which US conductor James Levine stretches the prelude to such an extent that time literally comes to a standstill and the narcotic sound luxuriously unfolds its aura. Levine took a few minutes longer than the strict ascetic Pierre Boulez...
Golden Globes Association promises 13 percent of the jury for blacks
Los Angeles – The association responsible for awarding the Golden Globes film prizes has, according to media reports, agreed to accept black jurors after severe criticism of the lack of diversity. The jury consisting of foreign journalists in Hollywood is to be increased this year from the current 87...
Annette Weber becomes the new director of the Zurich Opera House
Annette Weber, currently casting director of the Hamburg State Opera, will be the opera director of the Zurich Opera House. She succeeds Michael Fichtenholz, who will leave the house at the end of the season. According to the communiqué on Wednesday, she has long wanted to work in the...
Teutonic Sinusgesänge: The album “Cluster 71” is 50 years old
Of course, long before “Cluster 71”, German electronic music rose beguilingly into the airwaves. Their humorless creators were originally wrapped in laboratory coats. They wore their thin hair carefully parted. It took a composer like Stockhausen endless months in the 1950s to chirp out five-minute trends from his sine...
Schachinger’s “Go along with it”: Kitchen porn with a mandolin
Difficult decisions are pending. I was sent a catalog that can essentially be described as kitchen porn. Of course, it is clear to me what results you get when you enter the terms kitchen and porn in the search engine. The first thing that pops up in this context...
Crazy right now: test your Beyoncé knowledge!
Do you belong to the Beyhive or do you still need tutoring? Find out!...
Lichtblicke: When can we finally dance again?
Selected cultural tips for the time of yearning...
The madness is sown: “(R) Evolution” in the Drachengasse theater
The future belongs to the algorithms: Sandra Schüddekopf stages the future drama by Yael Ronen and Dimitrij Schaad with verve...