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Category Archives: opera

Visions

In the box seats J Edgar Hoover plucks a magazine page off his shoulder, where the thing has lighted and stuck. At first he’s annoyed that the object has come into contact with his body. Then his eyes fall upon the page. It is a color reproduction of a painting crowded with medieval figures who [...]

THE BLACKNESS OF DARKNESS

Not that we’re obsessed or anything; but don’t you sometimes catch yourself pondering the difference between black metal, speed metal, and death metal, for example? Maybe you can find some answers at this fine event…

GOODBYE ‘THE AUTHORS’

…Welcome Mubi. The Movie’s social network The Authors has changed its name to Mubi. Despite the controversy around the new name (and what is it supposed to mean) which is not by any means as glamorous as the previous one, the site exhibits new categories and features that make it even more attractive.
Though I’m not [...]

The universe is a library

Like all men of the Library, I have traveled in my youth; I have wandered in search of a book, perhaps the catalogue of catalogues; now that my eyes can hardly decipher what I write, I am preparing to die just a few leagues from the hexagon in which I was born. Once I am [...]

BODY-RELATED

DORKYPARK’s newest production Oedipus Rex will premiere in Dresden this Thursday, November 19. Igor Strawinsky’s “opera-oratorio after Sophocles” is mise-en-scène at Festspielhaus Hellerau by Argentinean choreographer Constanza Macras, the set is designed by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota. The productions by DORKYPARK are hard to describe with words: expect opera singers, dancers, a choir, a full [...]