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Opera Montana is turning the novella A River Runs Through It into an opera, featuring fly-fishing scenes on the Yellowstone River. To capture authenticity, writers and producers had the cast go fishing together during preparation for the show’s 50th‑anniversary production, with music by Zach Redler; the premiere is in Bozeman before moving to Missoula, exploring themes of family, loss and masculinity.
Early raves for Missy Mazzoli’s The Galloping Cure at the Edinburgh International Festival frame it as a bold, darkly comic take on the opioid crisis: a decaying town, a showman’s carousel, and a chilling price for relief that includes harvesting organs such as hair, eyes, kneecaps and tongue. Praised for its eclectic, multi‑layered score and striking visuals, the production is described as deeply integrated and stunningly realized, with critics calling it among the greatest/defining operas of our time and the reviewer saying he is blown away.
Shirley Apthorp’s review of Bayreuth’s AI-staged Ring criticizes Marcus Lobbes’ AI imagery for being banal and distracting, drowning out Wagner’s music despite a superb performance from conductor Christian Thielemann; audience frustration and boos mark the show as an ill-conceived experiment that should not be repeated.
Opera says its Android monthly active users grew 66% year over year in the UK and 40% in the US in Q2, crediting momentum to features Chrome lacks out of the box—free unlimited VPN, built-in ad blocker and AI tools—helping it pick up users in Europe after the EU Digital Markets Act and encouraging more Android users to try its browser.
The Washington National Opera filed a federal lawsuit to compel the Kennedy Center to turn over about $17 million in donor gifts, bequests and endowment funds it says the Center has wrongfully held since their roughly 15-year affiliation ended earlier this year.
Charlize Theron, in a New York Times interview, warned that AI could potentially do Timothée Chalamet’s job in about 10 years, while stressing that live performance art like ballet and opera should not be dismissed. She criticized Chalamet’s earlier remarks about those arts as reckless and out of touch, noting the importance of lifting up these forms. The piece also references public reactions from Jamie Lee Curtis and Conan O’Brien’s Oscars roast, but Theron maintains a nuanced take on the arts and the future of acting.
Charlize Theron criticized Timothée Chalamet’s remarks about ballet and opera in a New York Times chat, saying live performance matters and won’t be replaced by AI; she noted the brutal realities and injuries dancers endure, drawing on her own ballet training, and also discussed her difficult South African upbringing and her family’s trauma.
Charlize Theron publicly rebuked Timothée Chalamet for saying there’s little interest in ballet and opera, praising dancers as superheroes and arguing their discipline matters; she even warned that AI could replace him in the future and said she hopes to meet him to set him straight, amid backlash from the arts world.
Oscar winner Charlize Theron critiques Timothée Chalamet’s remarks about ballet and opera, arguing that AI could eventually replicate his work but live dance remains essential, a stance that sparked backlash from dancers and opera stars.
Charlize Theron publicly pushed back on Timothée Chalamet’s remarks about ballet and opera, calling his stance reckless and urging that both art forms be lifted up. Drawing on her own experience with dance, she highlighted the brutal discipline and physical toll dancers endure, and warned that while AI may eventually change some jobs, it can’t replace live performers on stage; her comments follow ongoing backlash since Chalamet’s CNN and Variety Town Hall remarks.
Charlize Theron criticized Timothée Chalamet’s remarks about ballet and opera, arguing that while AI may eventually be able to do his job in about a decade, it can’t replace the live, in-person performance of dance, and she lauds dancers for their discipline and resilience.
John Adams's The Death of Klinghoffer, the controversial opera about the hijacking of a cruise ship and the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, returns to the Florence stage under Luca Guadagnino; debates continue over whether it humanizes victims or villains, with past critics like Taruskin condemning it, while supporters argue it exposes the unseen, and the author—having seen it in London—remains unconvinced by both sides and invites readers to share their views.
The head of the Royal Ballet and Opera credited Timothée Chalamet’s controversial comments about ballet and opera with generating a massive public reaction that coincided with a jump in ticket sales and strong social-media engagement, while the company clarified its pricing approach isn’t fully dynamic.
Luca Guadagnino publicly defends Timothée Chalamet over his viral remark that cinema should not become like ballet or opera, arguing that the young actor is thoughtful and cinema should nurture imagination; Guadagnino is about to stage John Adams’s The Death of Klinghoffer in Italy and also discusses his upcoming project Artificial, underscoring his belief in uniting the arts rather than dividing them.
After Timothée Chalamet’s remarks disparaging ballet and opera at a town hall, Jon Stewart joked on The Daily Show that “opera and ballet have defeated” him following his Oscar loss, highlighting Misty Copeland’s Oscar performance and defending the arts against his critics.