Apple Inc’s television news drama “The Morning Show” scored three Golden Globe nominations on Monday, putting the iPhone maker in the running for its first major Hollywood awards as a new player in the crowded streaming video market. Digital video pioneer Netflix Inc dominated the field, landing 17 nominations in TV categories plus 17 more … Read more
The Favourite certainly lived up to its name at this year’s European Film Awards. It was the clear winner at the Berlin ceremony, picking up a total of eight awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Yorgos Lanthimos. Its Oscar-winning star Olivia Colman was unable to attend because of filming commitments, but co-producer Andrew … Read more
“We jokingly call ourselves ‘black restorers’ because what we do no one else wants to do,” Alexander Saprykin told Euronews. Pointing at the dilapidated logs of the “drums” — the special roof of the St. Nicholas the Wonderworker Church in the village of Berezhnaya Dubrova, in the northwestern region of Arkhangelsk, Saprykin offered a resigned … Read more
Betrayal, despair and madness combine for an extraordinary production of Bellini’s rarely staged masterpiece Il Pirata at the Teatro Real in Madrid. Written when Bellini was just 26-years-old, Soprano Sonya Yoncheva casts her spell on yet another strong female character – the heroine Imogene. Her tragic lover Gualtiero is passionately portrayed by Javier Camarena. The … Read more
A new production of Donizetti’s classic “Don Pasquale” comes with a twist – ditching the usual clichés to focus instead on the complexity of the characters. The witty comedy at the Zurich Opera House stars Julie Fuchs and Johannes Martin Kränzle in the leading roles. In a plot full of twists and turns, Don Pasquale’s … Read more
Would you go vegan to save the planet? With only a few days left until 2020, some people might be thinking about their new year’s resolutions already. The non-profit organisation Veganuary is trying to get more and more people to ditch meat for the first 31 days of the next decade to help fight the … Read more
When Galway, Ireland, was named one of two European Capitals of Culture for 2020 it paved the way for a year of events and millions in funding from the Irish government, designed to raise the profile of the small city on Ireland’s western coast. But a number of other Irish cities that lobbied for the … Read more
Rod Stewart and his son Sean are facing charges after a New Year’s Eve altercation with a security guard at a Palm Beach, Florida, resort. A security guard who was working a private party in the children’s area at The Breakers resort told police that when denied access, a group “began to get loud and … Read more
January 27, 2020 will mark the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz — the Nazi-operated concentration camp where more than a million people met their deaths during World War II. Now a new film tells the story of boxer Tadeusz Pietrzykowski, who survived the Holocaust thanks to his fists. Born in Warsaw in 1917, … Read more
The Vienna Philharmonic has premiered numerous masterpieces in its 178-year history and been under the baton of the most important maestros. But it’s the New Year’s Concert which made the orchestra world-famous – with the performance being broadcast to more than 90 countries around the world. Latvian maestro Andris Nelsons, who was chosen to conduct … Read more