Barely seven years old, a little girl in a small church in Oradea, in the St. Catherine estate started her career: she was playing Mary in the nativity play. Thanks to her stamina she strode confidently up the imaginary rungs of the opera world, until in 2016 she reached the...
Though a few decades ago Herbert von Karajan, the conductor who long defined the profile of the Berlin Philharmonic, declared that women’s place was in the kitchen, not a symphony orchestra, there is no corner of classical music where they are not present. Nowadays more and more women are taking...
The general public regards the UNESCO world heritage convention as a kind of “Landscape, eras, museums” movement, but it’s not just romantic canyons and old monasteries that enjoy the protection of the programme. One of the organization’s less well known lists containing intellectual cultural heritage is a collection of humanity’s...
I’ve heard that Kurt Elling is a quite busy artist who is hard to reach even through his manager to answer some e-mail questions. I can’t even imagine how does a Grammy-awarded jazz singer, composer and lyricist live his life. But I guess he has little time for long, coffee...
Many people think that church music is something old, boring, left from the period of powdered wigs, not being able to tell anything new to today’s society. For years, as a member of permanent or temporary church formations, I’ve been trying to persuade people to give this genre a second...
The 68th Berlinale International Film Festival Eldorado Documentary (Switzerland) Director: Markus Imhoof Markus Imhoof, documentary film maker, scriptwriter and opera director has become internationally famous by his film, The Boat Is Full (1981), which won the Silver Bear in the Berlinale. However, only few are aware that his...
David Hill Who wants to still get involved in a debate about refugees in Hungary? The international project Journeys and the Trafo House do. Instead of usual topics like "are all migrants terrorists" or "were they sent here by George Soros or another rich Jew", the...
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22 films from 18 countries will be competing for the Golden and the Silver Bear, as well as the Audi Short Film Award, worth € 20,000, and a nomination for the European Film Awards. The Nigerian film Besida by Chuko Esiri and the Austrian film The Shadow of Utopia by Antoinette Zwirchmayr will be...
PARIS (Reuters) - The auction of one of the world’s earliest and most sordid erotic novels -- the Marquis de Sade’s “120 Days of Sodom” -- has been halted after the French state declared it a national treasure and said it could not be sold to a foreign buyer. De...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the world’s most popular museums, will start charging a fixed admission fee for out-of-state visitors rather than urge they pay a suggested donation, museum officials announced on Thursday. The shift comes as a growing number of visitors...
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