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Irvine, Hewlett Foundations Award Grants to Support Next Generation of Arts Leaders
By Philanthropy News Digest
• Philanthropy News Digest • Monday, February 08, 2010
The James Irvine and William and Flora Hewlett foundations have announced grants totaling $740,000 to organizations working to cultivate the next generation of arts leaders in California through professional development, networking, and mentorships.
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Royal Opera House Chief Tony Hall Given Peerage
By Alistair Smith
• The Stage • Monday, February 08, 2010
Royal Opera House chief executive Tony Hall has been awarded a peerage in the House of Lords. His precise title has not yet been confirmed, but Hall, who is also chair of the Cultural Olympiad board, has been appointed as a non-party political peer.
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Where Singing Means More Than Hip Shaking
By Anthony Tommasini
• The New York Times • Monday, February 08, 2010
Yet during this performance [of the Met's Carmen], I was fixated on, of all things, Ms. Borodina’s dancing. What provoked me was an interesting column last month by my colleague Alastair Macaulay, The Times’s chief dance critic and a knowledgeable opera buff. Carmen, as he rightly pointed out, is full of dancing, and not just when the Gypsies cut loose at Lillas Pastia’s tavern in Seville. Even an aria like Carmen’s “Habanera,” which Bizet did not expect to be actually danced, is run through with the rhythms of that Spanish dance/song genre.
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New is Different than Young
By Amanda Ameer
• Life's a Pitch • Monday, February 08, 2010
Why does reaching "new" audiences always mean reaching "young" audiences?
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Obama appoints painter, novelist and four non-artists to advisory committee on arts and humanities
By Mike Boehm
• Culture Monster (LA Times) • Monday, February 08, 2010
President Obama has picked six people to join the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanties; two of them, painter-photographer Chuck Close and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short-story writer Jhumpa Lahiri, will become the first visual artist and writer on an advisory panel weighted with actors and business people. The other new appointees are entertainment executives and arts patrons.
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Operatic Style Designed to Suit Your Living Room
By Matthew Gurewitsch
• New York Times • Monday, February 08, 2010
At the end of La Bohème, as Puccini envisioned the opera, the frail seamstress Mimi dies in bed in a garret overlooking the rooftops of Paris, attended by only her five bohemian cronies. As seen live on Swiss television in September, she boarded an empty bus from a curb outside a shopping mall, leaving not only her friends but an indeterminate number of onlookers. Then the bus pulled away, pursued for a time by her stricken lover Rodolfo until he collapsed on the pavement.
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The Voices Again Ring Out
By Tim Smith
• The Baltimore Sun • Monday, February 08, 2010
After peeling off snow-flecked coats and greeting old friends with hugs, about 40 members of the former Baltimore Opera Chorus settle into chairs arranged around a semicircular room on the second floor of a downtown church. A warm buzz of conversation suddenly stops, replaced by wild whoops as the singers spot their longtime director, Jim Harp.
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Hitting High Notes
By Peter Dobrin
• The Philadelphia Inquirer • Monday, February 08, 2010
The Opera Company of Philadelphia is bouncing back from its blues. Ticket sales are growing, fund-raising is progressing, and ambitious new programming is in the works.
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Wielding Iron Checkbook to Shape Cultural Los Angeles
By Jennifer Steinhauer
• The New York Times • Monday, February 08, 2010
Every American city has its power brokers, but only Los Angeles has an Eli Broad. Mr. Broad dominates the arts here with a force that has no parallel in any major city. Los Angeles would literally not look the same had Mr. Broad not chosen it as his home 40 years ago, and his business-focused method of managing his giving has earned him a reputation as both a genius and a despot.
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Highlights of the 2008 Annual Field Report
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OPERA America’s Annual Field Report (AFR) is based on the Professional Opera Survey, which member companies complete each year by submitting details of their annual financial, performance and attendance activity. Formerly a stand-alone document, the 2008 Annual Field Report was included within OPERA America’s new Year in Review publication, released this past fall. Individual members can access a full-color PDF of the Year in Review by clicking here.
Forty-two of the 74 companies in the Constant Sample Group (CSG) reported a surplus for the year. In FY08, the median revenue and expense among the 74 companies was nearly $2.6 million, while the average company budget size was over $7.2 million. Total individual contributions — including unrestricted, temporarily and permanently restricted — grew 12% from 2007 to 2008.
Total North American productions rose to their highest levels in FY08 compared with the previous four seasons. However, companies, on average, reported a 4% year-over-year decrease in total seats available and a 2.5% year-over-year decline in total attendance.
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