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In civic life, decisions are increasingly driven by data, by algorithms, by statistics. Without the ability to understand or even grapple with the numbers and their implications, people are easily disenfranchised and manipulated. – The New York Times
As theatrical capabilities allow live performance to reflect extreme violence ever more effectively, Opera Holland Park founder Michael Volpe argues that it’s time for opera to follow the world of cinema and warn audiences about what they’re about to witness As Gianciotto, the baddie in Zandonai’s Francesca da Rimini, bludgeoned Francesca to death and […]
OK, but I’m trying to understand Nya’s logic in buying that expensive gift for her ex Andre and his new baby mama. Like, sure, I get it would be a flex, but the way I would never acknowledge him and that relationship, especially if we aren’t even really at the point where we’re having conversations […]
Before the gig economy consumed a third of the workforce, it was mostly musicians who worried about gigs. There are debates about the origins of the word—some believe it derives from an eighteenth-century term for horse-drawn carriages that may have doubled as stages for performers, while others contend that it was adapted from a Baroque […]