Day: February 9, 2023

350 Years of the paris opera: scandals, records, worries

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350 years of the paris opera: scandals, records, worries

Verdi’s "simon boccanegra" directed by catalan scandal director calixto bieito, mozart’s "don giovanni" in a new production by belgian ivo van hove, a ballet world premiere created in collaboration with japanese strong artist hiroshi sugimoto.

It is an ambitious and modern program with which the paris opera national is celebrating a double anniversary this year: its 350th birthday. Birthday as well as the 30. Anniversary of opera bastille, which since 1989 has been its second theater alongside garnier.

Lona rietschel: mother of the abrafaxes dies

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Lona rietschel: mother of the abrafaxes dies

Berlin (dpa) – the berlin comic artist lona rietschel, creator of the popular characters abrafaxe, is dead. She died on tuesday at the age of 84 years, as the mosaic publishing house announced.

Rietschel, who was born in what is now poland, originally wanted to be a fashion designer, but later switched to cartooning. In 1960, she began working as a comic artist for the gdr mosaic publishing house, whose comic books had a circulation of millions.