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Wexford Festival Opera: Curtain up on a historic 70th year Director Rosetta Cucchi is looking forward to anniversary celebrations after a tough lockdown
Tue, May 11, 2021, 08:00
It’s been a tough 13 months in the arts, not just in Ireland, but also in Italy, where Wexford Festival Opera’s artistic director, Rosetta Cucchi, lives. “With the theatres closed it hasn’t been easy,” she says. “But, actually, I’ve recently completed a very exciting project. We made an opera movie, of Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur. ” The opera, which dates from 1902, is named after the 18th century French actress Adrienne Lecouvreur, who was celebrated for the naturalism of her style. “We put together the worlds of opera and theatre. We were working in the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, and we decided to use not only the stage but the whole theatre. We turned the whole space into our set, the corridors, the boxes, the foyers. We made a real movie in the 18th century theatre. It was a s
Irish tenor and host of PBS series enjoys life in Ames
By RONNA FAABORGApril 25, 2021 GMT
AMES, Iowa (AP) Irish tenor Michael Londra is known around the world for his lead singing roles in productions such as “Riverdance.” It might come as a surprise to Iowans, however, to learn that Londra lives in Ames, is a partner in VenuWorks Theatricals, and is hosting a PBS series, “Ireland with Michael,” which will begin airing this spring.
“I moved to Ames about eight years ago,” Londra said. “And in truth, I was dragged here kicking and screaming. Prior to living here, I’d lived in Chicago, New York, London, Nice and London, so coming to Iowa was a bit scary.”
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Close your eyes for a minute and try to imagine this city without our white-tiled wonder on Bennelong Point, the Sydney Opera House.
“A building that changed the image of an entire country,” architect Frank Gehry said in 2003, when awarding the Pritzker prize, architecture’s highest accolade, to Jorn Utzon, the Dane who dreamt up the design yet died without seeing it completed.
The Opera House sails in 2021.
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“One of the indisputable masterpieces of human creativity, not only in the 20th century but in the history of humankind,” UNESCO described it in 2007 when our signature structure joined the World Heritage list.