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...ocean liner's hull or a spaceship. Designed by leading architect and native son of the city Santiago Calatrava, the building is a gleaming composition: curved walls, rolling stairways; turquoise reflecting pools topped by a detached, feather-like roof. But the Palau is more than an architectural masterpiece. An opera house that cost in the neighborhood of €325 million to build, it is also the riskiest element in the city's gamble to become one of Europe's major cultural destinations...
...Already, it's been quite a ride. The season opened last October in grand fashion, with orchestra maestro Zubin Mehta conducting Fidelio, Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera, and tenor Peter Seiffert - deemed "the best Florestan [Fidelio's leading man] performing today" by one critic - leading a stellar cast. On Dec. 2, however, a mechanical failure of the hall's stage works that forced the cancellation of several performances demonstrated just how risky and tenuous such triumphs can be. A temporary fix has salvaged the season, but the brief hiatus turned the spotlight on the scale of Valencia's ambition...
...hilltops in southern Lebanon, training expensive, sophisticated observation devices on every Arab who moves -- which sadly is the chief sort of attention that Israelis accord Arabs. Israelis read books at an amazing rate (80 book- publishing houses issue more than 4,000 titles a year) and support four opera companies and twelve dance repertory companies and dozens of legitimate theaters. They love art and poetry and music. But guns are everywhere. That Israel has accomplished so much in the midst of war is impressive. But the uprising of the Palestinians and the Israeli response have disturbed Israelis and Jews abroad...
...anniversary and the academy is determined that the evening's only bubbles will come from the champagne. For the first time, the red carpet will be partially covered and will lead not to a movie theater or hotel, where the baftas used to be held, but to the Royal Opera House. On Feb. 11, people will watch an awards ceremony that really does look and act a lot like the Oscars. "The red carpet is huge and the stage will be much more dramatic," says Amanda Berry, bafta...
...passionately about. He rallied for the cause as Prime Minister Paul Keating's chair of the Australia Council for the Arts, but his most powerful argument in its defence is his own writing. From The Island in the Mind's 17th century Frenchman, who invents Terra Incognita as an opera, to The Day We Had Hitler Home's Audrey McNeil, who, with her hand-held camera, invents Europe as a movie, Hall's novels comprise what he calls "a seven-part metaphorical history of Australia." His next, to be set in the Brisbane his family discovered on emigrating from England...