We’ve seen a fair number of fancy opera stage sets in our day, but nothing as astounding as the one mounted for the Bregenz Opera Festival’s production of André Chénier: a giant floating head and torso that could have been ...READ»
We’ve seen a fair number of fancy opera stage sets in our day, but nothing as astounding as the one mounted for the Bregenz Opera Festival’s production of André Chénier: a giant floating head and torso that could have been ...READ»
1690s Scotland, 1930s Austria, 2008 Iceland -- all are small countries that suffered economic collapses. Scott MacDonald and Andrew Novo's new book argues that small nations are especially vulnerable and ill-equipped to rebound. ...READ»
Should institutions dedicated to natural sciences depict a world untouched by civilization as a matter of history? The Schonbrunn Zoo in Vienna has chosen the opposite approach: this spring its animals share their pens with an installation created by artists Christoph Steinbrener and Rainer Dempf that reflects the degradation of animal habitats.READ»