Opera

There’s an epic power struggle taking place at San Francisco Opera this month — one that dates all the way back to ancient Egypt. “Antony and Cleopatra,” the new opera by Bay Area composer John Adams, makes its highly anticipated world premiere Sept. 10 to open the company’s 100th season. Directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer and conducted by company music director Eun Sun Kim, this bold new work stars bass-baritone Gerald Finley and soprano Amina Edris in the title roles, with tenor Paul Appleby as Octavius Caesar, the third…

Heartbreak and farce collide in Glyndebourne’s final production of the season, a double bill of Poulenc’s two one-acters – La Voix Humaine and Les Mamelles de Tirésias – directed by Laurent Pelly and conducted by Robin Ticciati. Both, in their very different ways, examine themes of sexuality and desire.The “tragédie lyrique” La Voix Humaine (1959) depicts a desperate phone conversation between a possibly suicidal woman, simply called Elle (“She”), and the unseen, unheard lover who is dumping her for someone else. Les…

Apple Pay works inside DuckDuckGo on the iPhone 13 Pro running the iOS 16 Beta. Photo: Florence Ion / GizmodoGood news for anyone who’d prefer tapping into Apple Pay for an online transaction: it might become available to use within browsers besides Apple’s Safari. MacRumors contributor, Steve Moser, discovered an Apple Pay button in both Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge in the latest iOS 16 beta, leading us to believe it will become an option for more third-party browsers.Moser tweeted screenshots showing the Apple Pay…

When Roxanna Panufnik and I began to think about Dalia back in 2019, we knew the topic of the refugee crisis would only become more crucial. We had no idea, of course, that the situation would be so much more terrifying by the time the premiere was upon us.The spark had come from Karen Gillingham, our director and Garsington Opera’s creative director of learning and participation. She had worked on a project four years ago, Dare to Dream, which linked local children, including refugees, with others in Uganda, Bangladesh…

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As Dusk Falls is an ambitious narrative adventure game that fails to execute its grandest ideas, hemorrhaging tension along the way. It attempts to tell a mature, action-packed tale about family and loss, but repeated missteps in logic and emotion strip the story of its power. From the mechanics to the branching narrative itself, As Dusk Falls sets clear goals and then fails to meet them, resulting in a choppy southwestern soap opera peppered with sluggish quick-time events. It feels like this game was purpose-built for…

“The Greta Gerwig Little Women was perfection, although I don’t understand why they missed out the lime scene.”“Maya Hawke in the PBS series is my favourite Jo.”“Timothée Chalamet is a great actor but he’s not the Laurie I imagined.”Such disparate views from my peers and colleagues have buzzed around my mind while preparing to direct the UK premiere of Mark Adamo’s opera Little Women. Opera directors often view Carmen and Don Giovanni as poisoned chalices: they are so well known that everyone has an opinion about how they…

The third album by Black Midi is nothing if not wildly eclectic. You hear sleazy-sounding arrangements with tango-esque rhythms created under the influence of Kurt Weill; luscious, cinematic strings; ranting spoken-word passages delivered in a variety of mannered voices; discordant, stabbing piano chords; gently picked guitar topped off with free-blowing saxophone; florid cocktail-lounge piano; an equally florid faux-announcement of a boxing match; an interlude featuring accordion and what sounds like a melodica; frantic…

Opera GX Mobile is a gaming browser for Android and iOS that builds on the company's rapidly growing Opera GX. Opera Software, the developer of Opera browser, launched Opera GX for desktop in June 2019 that was claimed to be the world's first gaming browser. Now, the gaming browser has made its way to the mobile platform in the form of a first beta version. Opera is calling this the “world's first mobile browser for games” and a public release will take place in a few weeks.Opera shared through a press release that Opera…

Autoplaying videos follow everyone around the Internet these days. A few years ago, these used to be Flash videos and could easily be stopped simply by disabling Flash on your browser. However, as the Internet has moved to better technologies such as HTML5 for videos, so have autoplaying videos.Most of the time, these autoplaying videos tend to be nothing more than annoying news bulletins you don’t need, or worse, ads. There’s an easy way to block these on every PC browser, just follow the steps below.Google ChromeIt’s…