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Once again, the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris has given French opera critics a case of the vapors - but this time, two British new wave pop stars are at the center of the uproar. Since Jean-Luc Choplin became director in 2006, the historic opera house's repertoire of classic opera has increasingly taken a back seat to newer, bolder commissions in a bid to make the Chatelet stage a true crossroads for the arts. From a Bollywood-style remake of the 1923 opera-ballet Padmavati, to a stage mutation of the sci-fi horror film The Fly, the Chatelet...
...through the fertile mixing of jazz, opera, rock and electronica, punctuated by moving, ethereal intermezzos by onstage jazz instrumentalists improvising over the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris. While Le Monde had little appetite for this musical "soup", the Journal de Dimanche was eager for more. "In the breach between rock-pop and opera, [Nieve] invented something new," said the paper's critic. "Despite its faults, this innovation, far superior to all the musical comedies in the works, deserves to be saluted...
...Jackson was scheduled to testify this morning. The reclusive pop star originally asked to appear by video link from Los Angeles, citing an unspecified illness, but agreed to travel after doctors gave him the all clear. Court officials anticipated so much interest in Jackson's appearance that they took the unusual step of issuing admission tickets to media outlets that hoped to cover the case...
During the question-and-answer session following Leibovitz’s slide presentation of her book, Thomas Burns, a freshman at Northeastern University, asked Leibovitz how she felt about the recent controversy regarding her Vanity Fair shoot in which then-15-year-old pop star Miley Cyrus appeared partially nude...
...crushed to the point of bruising, pregaming retroactively devolved into mere “gaming,” and dozens of cold, slightly drunk students never got to hear what the Krokodiloes would sound like remixed with Birdman and Lil Wayne’s 2007 hit “Pop Bottles” (the answer is “incredible”). The DJ himself skipped off early, back to his hotel, presumably to watch Starz until he fell asleep...