Florentine Opera christened the newly renovated Uihlein Hall Friday evening by scattering litter across the stage.
But wait a minute I don t want you to think the Florentines don t clean up after themselves, or that they won t be invited back to the Marcus Performing Arts Center s flagship space (with spiffy new center aisles, but more on that later).
In a COVID-19 pandemic year of local arts groups navigating safety protocols to perform unusual works in unusual ways, the Florentine s Little Mahagonny might be the unusualest.
Composed by Kurt Weill with words by Bertolt Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmann, Little Mahagonny (1927) is a six-song cantata about people who light out for a city of gold, only to discover they re miserable there, too. Weill and Brecht later expanded it into the opera The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. Both versions include The Alabama Song, covered by a zillion people, including The Doors, David Bowie and Bette Midler.
Andrew Scott as Tony Blair in The Crown could be the ex-PM s redemption
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The single-player campaign is ready to go, but Firefly wants multiplayer ready at launch
As the holiday season wrapped up, Stronghold: Warlords developer Firefly Studios faced a difficult decision: launch day was rapidly approaching, and the RTS game’s multiplayer mode still wasn’t performing the way it ought to. One option was to launch the single-player campaign on the scheduled release date, with the multiplayer mode to be added later.
“We were really, really considering that because we could have just released single-player, and that would have been a perfectly viable option in terms of what was actually ready at the time,” marketing director Nick Tannahill says. Other games have taken this approach recently: Iron Harvest added ranked multiplayer a few weeks after launch, but saw a wave of unfavourable Steam reviews over what users saw as ‘missing features’ thanks to that decision.