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☆ Opera star Placido Domingo faces new accusations of misconduct
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-15 | by ( Graham Keeley | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

MADRID, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Opera star Placido Domingo faced new accusations of sexual harassment from a fellow Spanish singer in a television programme broadcast on Sunday, three years after such claims prompted an apology and curtailed his career. "One of the first things they tell you is don't go up in the lift alone with Placido Domingo," the woman told La Sexta television channel. He (Placido) told me in front of everyone: 'Listen, can I put my hand in one of these lovely pockets of yours.' U.S. institutions including the Metropolitan Opera in New York and San Francisco Opera also scrapped planned engagements. Domingo resigned as general director of the Los Angeles Opera, whose own enquiry found 10 allegations about him to be "credible."

☆ Cramer: What I learned about investing from the first millionaire I met as a kid
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Jim Cramer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

He didn't talk much on the drive in, just listened to call-in radio shows and then the opera, the Metropolitan Opera, brought to you by Texaco. And if you ran out of those, you might have to close on one of the most important business days leading up to Christmas. But Mr. Paul was a supplier, a decent man, and most importantly a retired Marine Corps colonel. One day Pop asked me to summon up the courage and ask Mr. Paul to show him his stock ledger. Mr. Paul, in short, was a millionaire.

Hair, makeup, wardrobe and hoof picking—it’s all in a night’s work for the horses who are part of the cast in The Metropolitan Opera’s long-running opera “Aida.”Live horses have appeared in the show since it opened in 1988—and their final curtain call will come at the end of this season on May 18.

☆ ‘The Hours’ Review: A Woolf Pack of Divas at the Met
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Heidi Waleson | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

New York‘The Hours,” by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Greg Pierce , which had its world-premiere staged production at the Metropolitan Opera last Tuesday, is clever in concept. Its sources—the 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Michael Cunningham and the 2002 all-star film by Stephen Daldry —supply juicy roles for three women playing characters experiencing traumas in three separate eras, related through Virginia Woolf’s novel “Mrs. Dalloway.” The structure of opera permits techniques of simultaneity and overlap that exist in no other medium. From a marketing standpoint, the creation of “The Hours” was driven by soprano Renée Fleming , once the Met’s most beloved diva, whose 2017 “Der Rosenkavalier” at the house supposedly marked her retirement from staged opera. On Tuesday, she returned in the role of Clarissa Vaughan, custom tailored for her voice.

☆ Elon Musk jokes about overpaying for Twitter and reiterates plan to charge $8 a month at confab for wealthy investors as the company enacts mass layoffs
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Hayley Cuccinello | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Musk said the layoffs will save the company $400 million a year, and presented his turnaround plan. Musk's appearance comes as he gears up to lay off as much as 50% of Twitter's 7,500 staff — one week after purchasing the struggling social media company. Musk also gave his pitch for turning the troubled social media company around, including plans to start charging verified user $8 a month. Twitter emailed staff on Thursday, warning of impending layoffs "in an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path." Former Twitter employees are flocking to social media to share their experiences.

☆ „Simfonia Alpilor”, dirijată de Christian Badea, se aude la Filarmonica „George Enescu” în cadrul stagiunii online
▼ + stars: | 2018-04-27 | by ( Otilia Andrei | ) adevarul.ro time to read: +5 min

Programul Orchestrei simfonice a Filarmonicii „George Enescu”, prezentat pe 27 aprilie 2018, este alcătuit din lucrările Te Deum pentru Maria Tereza de Joseph Haydn, Concertul nr. Solistul concertului de Mozart a fost Martin Owen, cornist recunoscut pe plan internaţional, concermaistru invitat - violonistul David Lefèvre, Corul Filarmonicii „George Enescu” fiind pregătit de Iosif Ion Prunner. La Simfonia Alpilor, solistul Martin Owen se alătură Orchestrei Filarmonicii, în calitate de şef de partidă în orchestră”, a declarat dirijorul Christian Badea. În 2012, Christian Badea a devenit dirijorul principal al Filarmonicii "George Enescu" din Bucureşti şi, în acelaşi an, a înfiinţat Fundaţia Română pentru Excelenţă în Muzică. În Festivalul „George Enescu” 2019 din Bucureşti, a condus Filarmonica din Sankt Petersburg cu Vadim Repin solist.

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