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Royal Opera House
2016-10-26 10:59:26
The most striking art inspired by opera
[…] 1928. ‘Notice that some of the audience are sitting on the stage: they look like judges. Fiction and reality are blurred here,’ says Nicholas Till from The Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre at the University of Sussex . ‘It affirms Hogarth's support for English culture over the cosmopolitan culture of the Whigs, who supported Italian opera, which The Beggar's Opera parodied.’ Giovanni Paolo Panini Musical feast given by the Cardinal de La Rochefoucauld in the Teatro Argentina in Rome (1747) Detail of Giovanni Paolo Panini, Fête musicale donnée par le cardinal de La Rochefoucauld au théâtre Argentina de Rome en 1747 à l'occasion du mariage du Dauphin, fils de Louis XV (1747) Giovanni Paolo Panini was famous for decorating some of the best palaces in Rome. He was also a famous professor of perspective and optics at the French Academy in Rome , a skill […]
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ArtsJournal: music
2016-02-10 09:13:40
Top Posts From AJBlogs 02.09.16
[…] last post, below is my illustrated companion for In Wisconsin, a Museum Reborn – my review in today’s Wall Street Journal of the reinvented Milwaukee Art Museum, which gave me a very warm welcome … read more AJBlog: CultureGrrl Published 2016-02-09 Short and to the point I love aphorisms and epigrams, perhaps because I have no gift for coining them. The brilliantly precise concision that allows writers like La Rochefoucauld, Chamfort, and Karl Kraus to say big things on the smallest possible scale, … read more AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2016-02-09 [ssba_hide]
2013-09-24 19:02:41
Pure poetry: Where elephants and pianos go
[…] keys, and the vertically ordered innards remind me of a grinning skull. Someone else might see it as junk, but to Ross, Kim, Penny, and so many others who have come to the sanctuary and left inspired, it is treasure too good for a suburban tip or back lot landfill. And in this state, a continuous study in ruin, it will surely rouse others and tonk at their thoughts. French maxim writer Francois de La Rochefoucauld said that “In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions; so that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.” This holds true for me, though it seems that what grows from ruin is never what one expects. *** LINK to a variation on the same theme with a life-affirming ending: http://arioso7.wordpress.com/2012/07/14/pianos-old-age-and-cosmetic-imperfection-2/
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