Offers more than opera. Weve got beautiful grounds and gardens and lakes, a wonderful visual art gallery and then a wonderful opera. Glyndebourne may be a historic venue, but it is also trying to make Opera Fit For The Future by being a pioneer in sustainability. We were the first Arts Organisation to put up a wind turbine. Were running on wind. Glyndebourne, as an icon in operatic sustainability, has really got a very strong place. And glyndebourne is embracing a drive towards greater diversity. Its about making sure that Diverse Communities have access to opera. If we keep opening the door, more people will come into it. But does innovation, sustainability and diversity matter, or do audiences really only care about great Opera Performances . Let me take you to the opera. Glyndebourne in sussex, about 150 kilometres south of london, is a popular destination for thousands of opera lovers every year. They sing operatically. As well as opera, audiences can take a stroll, have a picnic i
tonight s lead right now, we are following reports that u.s. israeli and hamas negotiators are closing in on a deal that would release some hostages in exchange for a pause in fighting in the israel-hamas war. it comes as stark new polling from nbc news shows just how much this conflict has impacted the president s approval rating, which at its lowest point amid widespread dissatisfaction with his handling of the war six weeks into the conflict, and 11 months out from the 2024 election, which according to the new polling, the president could narrowly lose to donald trump if voters went to the polls right now. house democrats assistant jim fibrin joins me in a minute with his take on the data. also tonight, 20 of the nation s big city mayors just wrapped up their conference and how to tackle america s urban homelessness crisis. los angeles is the grand zero for that crisis, and we ll talk to the city s mayor. karen bass, about how her administration is tackling homelessnes
And a world war veteran. Were standing in front of that home on 2300 block of eagle avenue in alameda. Whats left of this home following that morning fire. The house going up in flames and crews finding that man deceased inside. Lets show you some video from our nbc bay area skyranger. According to alameda fire, theyre saying their fire started roughly before 6 00 a. M. Started seeing smoke coming out of windows and basement areas the crews were able to knock this out in 30 minutes, but they found the elderly man inside pronounced dead on the scene. He lived here decades, mostly by himself. He was a world war veteran and folks the this tightknit neighborhood described him as a fine man. Their worst fears were confirmed when he didnt come outside. Here is one of the neighbors i spoke to speaking about her neighbor this morning. He was old and we would all try to pitch in and help. And, you know, he would come out and sit on his porch every morning and everybody, you know, would give him
Week we talk about arts and culture but today were going to talk about facts and figures and about the question where the germany has the best of all cultural landscapes first lets fly from south to north. Germany has more than five thousand museums one of them is the pina could take demo down in munich. Germany is the land of opera with six thousand eight hundred performances every year. And dressed and is its most famous opera house. The country smallest theater is in the town of now on board with just eighty seats there are one hundred forty two public theaters altogether in germany. One of the worlds most important art exhibitions is held in castle every five years documentary. About ten new art shows open to the public every day in germany berlin has more artists than anywhere else in germany one in every hundred people is an artist here. The new cultural highlight is the aid philharmonia in hamburg with a record numbers of visitors and sold out concerts germany funds one hundred
Influence, blood money, body of lies and most recently, the quantum spy. This is part of our 2018 special fiction addition of indepth. Host David Ignatius, whats the premise of the quantum spy. Guest the us is locked in a new Manhattan Project race to build a piece of technology that is world changing, that is the quantum computer and our principal rival in that race is china. I told you as far as simply the facts, the the quantum spy is a novel that imagines characters who involve intelligencebattles , and other secrets about this world changingtechnology. Principally its the story of my hero orest chang. An officer who is asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learned things about himself, things about the cia, they do not how the world works that shake him to his foundation and we also see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Services , not so familiar to readers as five fiction. We all feel weve been in Moscow Center with carla and the russian