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Stars queue up to participate in new online plays on demand service
By Matthew Hemley
• The Stage (U.K.) • Friday, January 27, 2012
Richard Eyre, Simon Callow and Tilda Swinton are among the names lined up to curate work for a new online video on demand service screening plays, dance productions and concerts alongside backstage and interview footage.
Hibrow is the brainchild of film-maker Don Boyd, and allows members of the public to watch entire productions and performances from a variety of arts organisations - including the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh - whose productions have been captured by a specially assembled production team.
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A 2nd act in Clifton for acclaimed New Jersey State Opera
By Hannan Adely
• The Record • Friday, January 27, 2012
The New Jersey State Opera, a grand-opera company that endured several years of financial turmoil, has regrouped and relocated to the Aprea Theater in the former YM-YWHA of Greater Clifton-Passaic. The company, which holds its season-opening concert on Sunday, said the move will lower costs and allow the 47-year-old opera company to stay viable.
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Last Curtain, but No End of Stories, for a Veteran Met Singer
By James Barron
• Arts Beat (The New York Times) • Friday, January 27, 2012
His name never was Baseball Plishka. But some opera fan out there in radioland once thought it was.
How
nice that your parents named you after the national pastime, the fan
wrote. Then it dawned on her: On the Metropolitan Opera’s Saturday
afternoon radio broadcasts, the announcer always referred to him as
“bass Paul Plishka.” From across the room with the volume a little too
low, it must have sounded like “Baseball Plishka.”
That will not
happen again after Saturday (except when the broadcast is a repeat). Mr.
Plishka, 70, is retiring after 1,600 performances and almost 45 years
at the Met.
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Are You Ready for Some Opera?
By Gregory Sullivan Isaacs
• TheaterJones • Friday, January 27, 2012
It may be the oddest pairing since Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito played twins in the 1988 movie of the same name or since Harold met Maude in the 1971 spring-December romance film. A surprising announcement was made at a celebratory press conference at Cowboys Stadium on Thursday afternoon: The Dallas Opera and the Dallas Cowboys, together at last!
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Evans exits opera house and heads for the bridge
By Michaela Boland
• The Australian • Thursday, January 26, 2012
After four years, four state premiers and four different arts ministers, Sydney Opera House chief executive Richard Evans has called curtains and accepted a job on the other side of Sydney Harbour running Paul Cave's BridgeClimb. Evans, 44, says he had been considering a corporate career outside the arts when Cave approached him late last year.
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Report says think about this: state spends $1 on arts and culture, which spends $51 on economy
By Sherri Welch
• Crain's Detroit Business • Thursday, January 26, 2012
The intrinsic value of arts and cultural organizations has long been
recognized, but a new report reinforces what the sector has long
trumpeted: They have significant economic impact, as well.
For every $1 the state invested in nonprofit arts and cultural groups
in 2009, those organizations pumped more than $51 into Michigan's
economy through spending on rent, programs, travel and salaries.
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Opera Advocacy: Not Just About Appropriation
Brandon Gryde, Director of Government Affairs, Dance/USA and OPERA America
Original Content • 1/24/2012
By now, most in the performing arts community have learned that the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) received yet another cut for FY12. With the final funding amount at $145.979 million, the NEA has almost $9 million less this year on top of the $12 million cut in FY11.
These cuts were already reflected in the first round of Art Works grant allocations (in both the number and size of grants) and also in the change in FY13 guidelines with the elimination of consortium grants.
While funding for the NEA has been a flagship issue for the arts community and advocates, it’s important to know that this is not the only issue that the performing arts face in 2012. OPERA America represents the opera community in a wide array of issues — some that may be very familiar, and others that may be completely new.
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