Word: coventionalism
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Perhaps because its stars must regularly don Viking helmets, opera seemed to be the last performing art in which talent still mattered more than looks. That was until London's Royal Opera at Covent Garden denied leading soprano DEBORAH VOIGT her signature role of Ariadne in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos because the well-fed diva couldn't fit into the little black dress the casting director had to fill. "I have big hips," Voigt told London's Sunday Telegraph, "and Covent Garden has a problem with them." The opera house said it "deeply regrets" that the weight issue became...
...people who work here spend our days and more than a few of our nights trying to capture life in the pages of TIME. So it was a neat reversal last week to watch the pages of TIME come to life. At the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden, the magazine threw a party to honor our 2003 European Heroes (TIME Europe, April 28), 36 amazing people - some famous, most not - who provoke, inspire and generally make the world a better place. Not all of our heroes could make the event; British football star and freelance style icon...
...creative direction of the artists or galleries they sponsor. Can the marriage of art and business succeed? To find out, TIME looked at three countries on the frontier where artistic vision meets financial pressure. LONDON Clear voices, raised in song, rang through St. Paul's Church in London's Covent Garden late last month. The music was "a singing strike" by choristers from the English National Opera (ENO), which faces €1.75 million in debt and whose management has proposed that its core group of 60 singers be reduced by one-third. In response, the choristers pulled...
...accordionist. He says merely that his interests shifted. All the same, he found time last year to design and direct Messiaen's opera St. Francis of Assisi at Berlin's Deutsche Oper, and he is working on sets for a full cycle of Wagner's Ring at London's Covent Garden. But Libeskind rarely touches the piano anymore. "It's hard just to play for yourself," he says, "when you used to play for a big audience...
...film. But she accepted without hesitation. With relatively few leading roles for mezzos - most of the celebrated heroines are sung by sopranos - how could she turn down a major new part tailored to her voice, let alone one that would give her the chance to make her Covent Garden debut? Then she read the book. "I was a little bit anxious," she recalls, struggling to find the words in English to convey how overwhelmed she was by the story, whose central character, a Polish gentile survivor of Auschwitz, is forced to choose which of her two children will live...