By: Christos Makridis Despite socio-political turmoil in Greece, Athens premiered a new rendition of Christoph Williabald Gluck’s masterpiece, Iphigénie en Tauride, at the Pallas Theater on March 18th...
03.24.2023 Forbes.comA terrible beauty” is a paradoxical phrase, as the two main items in it appear to clash. We do not normally associate beauty with terribleness. But that is how the Irish poet W. B. Yeats described a l...
03.25.2023 Nation.co.keGod's Creatures Director : Saela Davis, Anna Rose Holmer Cert : 15A Starring : Emily Watson, Paul Mescal, Aisling Franciosi, Declan Conlon, Toni O'Rourke, Lalor Roddy, Brendan McCormack Runn...
03.22.2023 Irishtimes.comWhen The Irish Times established the Irish Theatre Awards, 25 years ago, Irish theatre companies, actors, writers, designers and directors were experiencing great success on stages in both New York an...
03.24.2023 Irishtimes.comAmong the most insidious and destructive aspects of Marxism and its recent manifestations cultural-Marxism and absolutist secularism is how the end always justifies the means and how any sense of the spiritual and the transcendent is lost. Add the impact of what the Italian philosopher Augusto Del Noce condemns as “scientism and the technological society” and it should not surprise we now live in a soulless world ruled by what is utilitarian, pragmatic and self-seeking. For those committed to Ma...
03.25.2023 Catholicweekly.com.auThe sacrifice of Iphigenia is a pivotal moment in the tale of the House of Atreus—it motivates Agamemnon’s murder and in turn the matricide of Orestes—and the Trojan War, functioning as it does as a s...
03.25.2023 Sententiaeantiquae.comJosé de Nebra was resurrected as a dwarf, in 2016, at the Teatro de la Zarzuela. Recovery of Iphigenia in Thrace (1747) was then compressed into just over an hour and a quarter without a break. A succ...
03.27.2023 Westobserver.com“Each side is coming face to face with its own conception of the devil! ” – Norman Mailer, The Armies of the Night Arthur Rackham’s 1935 illustration of Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Descent into the Maelstrom...
03.24.2023 Mindingthecampus.orgThough some performances fell flat, Mojada is a must-watch Chasing a better life, Medea and Hason have crossed the Mexican-American border and settled in Los Angeles. Hason has adapted to the new cult...
03.23.2023 Martlet.caDemocracy, if we can keep it - the situation in Greece Greece is set to hold its general elections in May 2023. Voters are going to the ballot boxes under the shadow of a catastrophic rail crash (Feb. 28) where two trains collided and 57 people died....
03.26.2023 Thenewfederalist.eu