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| New "Parsifal" is "powerful journey" for all: director Friday, Nov 29, 2013 10:41 AM PST Director Stephen Langridge knows MTV video clips tend to have mass appeal and Wagner operas do not, but he thinks anyone can be moved by his new production of "Parsifal", opening at London's Covent Garden on Saturday night. In the second act, New Zealand tenor Simon O'Neill as Wagner's "pure fool" of the title must resist the seductive lures of German soprano Angela Denoke's witch and temptress Kundry. "Anybody who comes to see 'Parsifal' is in for a powerful journey which will shake up all sorts of emotions and corners of their subconscious, almost without their knowing it," he told Reuters during a rehearsal for this last Wagner production by the Royal Opera in the composer's birthday bicentenary year. "It's the absolute antithesis of MTV, where you are battered with fabulous imagery for three minutes - and which I kind of enjoy, actually," he said. Full Story | Top |
| Saatchi says he still adores ex-wife Nigella Lawson Friday, Nov 29, 2013 10:05 AM PST  By Alexander Winning LONDON (Reuters) - Millionaire art dealer Charles Saatchi told a court on Friday he still "absolutely adores" his ex-wife, TV chef Nigella Lawson, despite their very public divorce in July. The celebrity pair ended their 10-year marriage and Saatchi accepted a police caution after newspapers splashed pictures of him with his hands round her neck at a London restaurant in June. Saatchi's comments came during the trial of the pair's two personal assistants, Italian sisters Elisabetta and Francesca Grillo, who are accused of fraud by using credit cards lent to them by the couple to spend more than 685,000 pounds ($1.1 million) on themselves over four years. I adore Nigella now, I absolutely adore Nigella and I'm broken-hearted to have lost her." Isleworth Crown Court in West London has been told by the prosecution that in the four months to June 2012 alone, Francesca Grillo, 35, spent an average of 48,000 pounds per month and 41-year-old Elisabetta 28,000 pounds. Full Story | Top |
| Pearson sells Mergermarket to focus on education business Friday, Nov 29, 2013 07:09 AM PST British media and education group Pearson has agreed to sell its Mergermarket news service for 382 million pounds ($624 million), to invest in its global education business. The sale to funds advised by private equity group BC Partners was at a higher price than the 300 to 360 million pounds banking sources had expected. Pearson Chief Executive John Fallon is reorganizing the company to concentrate on fast-growing economies and digital services, rather than Europe and North America, where austerity measures have hit public spending. However, Pearson has said it intends to hang on to the newspaper, which it believes has a better fit with the overall group. Full Story | Top |
| South Africans warm to Mandela movie, critics unimpressed Friday, Nov 29, 2013 03:55 AM PST  By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - 'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom' won rave reviews from South Africans who flocked to its opening night but critics were unimpressed, with one describing the latest biopic about the anti-apartheid leader as overly reverential ANC propaganda. With South Africa's first black president now 95 and in poor health, cinema-goers were in emotional mood at Thursday's first airing of the 150-minute epic, which stars British actors Idris Elba as Mandela and Naomie Harris as his wife, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. "I grew up in the streets of Alexandra township and for me every step that Mr Mandela took, it was as if I was taking that step again. I feel very loved and fortunate to be a South African." Mandela, who became president in 1994 but stepped down after one term in office, gave independent South African producer Anant Singh the film rights to his 'Long Walk to Freedom' autobiography more than 15 years ago. Full Story | Top |
| Masked artist makes sticky issue out of radiation in Japan Friday, Nov 29, 2013 02:00 AM PST  By Sophie Knight TOKYO (Reuters) - With his face hidden behind sunglasses and a white surgical mask, the artist is almost as invisible as the radioactive contamination he is protesting against - yet his stickers are graphic reminders of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Known as 281 Antinuke, Japan's answer to Banksy has covered Tokyo streets in images depicting politicians as vampires and children being shielded from radioactive rain to highlight the consequences of a meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant after an earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011. The disaster and the response by plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) stoked anti-nuclear sentiment and the biggest public protests in Japan since the 1960s, but the movement has since lost momentum. "Perhaps because everyone believes people telling them on television that everything is fine, they don't seem so worried," 281 Antinuke told Reuters. Full Story | Top |
| Rembrandt, Chinese painters star in Sotheby's first major China sale Friday, Nov 29, 2013 01:57 AM PST  By Adam Rose BEIJING (Reuters) - Sotheby's will hold its first major auction on the Chinese mainland on Sunday as competition between the New York-based auction house and its long-time rival Christie's moves into one of the world's hottest art markets amid a government crackdown on corruption and luxury spending. Sotheby's and its local joint venture partner, Beijing Gehua Art Company, are offering a slate of modern and contemporary Chinese works with a total estimated value of more than 123 million yuan ($20.19 million) as part of "Beijing Art Week". The event will feature more than 100 lots including canvases by some of China's most renowned oil and ink painters, as well as three selling exhibitions with a selection of diamonds and European furniture and art. "The Beijing Art Week is basically our first major move into China," said Kevin Ching, CEO of Sotheby's Asia. Full Story | Top |
| Teletubbies' DHX buys kids TV channels from BCE, shares surge Thursday, Nov 28, 2013 12:42 PM PST By Euan Rocha TORONTO (Reuters) - Teletubbies owner DHX Media said on Thursday it will acquire Family Channel and three other children's channels from BCE's Bell Media for C$170 million in cash, adding content distribution to its current capabilities. The deal, cheered by analysts and investors, sent DHX shares surging 38 percent to a lifetime-high of C$5.74 in morning trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Halifax-based DHX, which creates, produces or licenses, children's shows such as Teletubbies, Yo GabbaGabba and Caillou, said the deal will boost its earnings and give it a stable stream of subscription-based revenue. RBC Capital Markets analyst Haran Posner described the deal as "transformational," noting that DHX is paying a very attractive price for high quality assets. Full Story | Top |
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