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Calatrava's passion for the project is particularly notable because opera is, in many places, a dying art. Long-established houses like Milan's La Scala, Berlin's Deutsche Oper and even New York City's Met struggle to fill seats. The reasons for opera's slow decline are legion...
But Valencia's biggest selling point is, quite simply, the talent it has attracted. Classical music legend Lorin Maazel is the opera company's music director and Mehta is its orchestra director, but Helga Schmidt, the former artistic director of London's Royal Opera House, is the Palau's artistic...
I put the remaining wine cups in the box and went upstairs to inspect the damage. My heart sank. On the third floor landing were fragments of porcelain in colors of oxblood, imperial yellow, celadon green and blue-and-white. The third-floor rooms resembled a scene after an earthquake...
Exactly how one style relates to another, however, has remained a mystery--except over one brief stretch of musical history. That, says Princeton University composer Dmitri Tymoczko, "is why, no matter where you go to school, you learn almost exclusively about classical music from about 1700 to 1900. It's...
Within hours of Chavez's announcement ending the Central Bank's autonomy, the 84-year-old Maza, whose term as a Bank director will expire in a matter of days, disputed the decision on television and radio interviews that are known for being highly critical of the president. "I consider...