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Press releases are of no general significance, but it's worth noting that Met made the announcement in a . The headline is about a contract extension for Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the company's music director; the Sharon is mentioned in a sub-headline. "The extension encompasses a new production of Wagner’s cycle," it is stated — an actively bizarre way of framing the biggest project any opera house can undertake. Only two short paragraphs are devoted to Sharon; the rest consists of hype of Nézet-Séguin's activities. Davidsen is not quoted. Perhaps Nézet-Séguin will be singing all the other parts ..read more

Alas, no footage seems to exist of Ernst Lubitsch dancing at the Nosferatu Ball, which followed the unveiling of F. W. Murnau's vampire masterpiece ..read more

Press releases are of no general significance, but it's worth noting that Met made the announcement in a . The headline is about a contract extension for Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the company's music director; the Sharon is mentioned in a sub-headline. "The extension encompasses a new production of Wagner’s cycle," it is stated — an actively bizarre way of framing the biggest project any opera house can undertake. Only two short paragraphs are devoted to Sharon; the rest consists of hype of Nézet-Séguin's activities. Davidsen is not quoted. Perhaps Nézet-Séguin will be singing all the other parts ..read more

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In commemoration of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, Ruzan Mantashyan and Kirill Gerstein perform Komitas's "Antuni." Gerstein is launching a formidable new project entitled , combining late works of Debussy with Armenian songs and dances of Komitas Vardapet. Accompanying the recording, which also features Mantashyan, Katia Skanavi, and Thomas Adès, is a 170-page book that addresses the historical frame: the First World War and the contemporaneous murder of more than a million Armenians.  ..read more

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