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Break The Rules And Get The Part

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Not getting the part? Not getting callbacks? Are you angry and depressed at the results of applying archaic rules to superficial, low-stakes pointless monologues because you know you’re capable of so much more in a performance?

Break the Rules and Get the Part: Thirty Monologues for Women not only teaches how and why to break the outdated rules you were taught, but unlike other “story monologues,” each one-minute monologue in this book is written with a clearly defined active and emotional arc in the present.

The Pianist Who Owes His Career To An Austrian Chancellor

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Rudolf Buchbinder, who turns 70 today, is reckoned to have played the complete cycle of 32 Beethoven sonatas more than 50 times. In a flurry of Viennese press encomia for his birthday it is being recalled that Buchbinder caught the ear of the Austrian chancellor Julius Raab in 1957, when he was ten years old.

Bundeskanzler Raab found him a teacher and paid privately for his lessons. Soon after, Buchbinder became the youngest student ever admitted to the Vienna Musikakademie.

Raab ruled Austria in a conservative-socialist coalition from 1953 to 1961. He is widely considered to be the most important founder of the post-war republic.

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Nutcracker in Milan – Bouder and Macario Open Tonight

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There is a rare opportunity to see Amedeo Amodio and Emanuele Luzzati’s glorious Nutcracker which has been dusted down and is ready to conqueror Italian ballet-goers once again.

At the Arcimboldi Theatre in Milan on 2 and 3 December, New York City Ballet principal Ashley Bouder will dance with Alessandro Macario, principal dancer with Teatro San Carlo in Naples; on 4 December Rebecca Bianchi and Alessio Rezza from Rome Opera Ballet will head the cast. Soloists and corps de ballet assembled by Daniele Cipriani Entertainment for the national tour.

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Watch Vienna’s new HDR – better than the Met?

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press release:

New dimension of WIENER STAATSOPER live at home:

La traviata in new HDR image mode for first time on 29 November

Today, Tuesday, 29 November 2016, the WIENER STAATSOPER’s live at home programme will be broadcasting Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata for the first time ever as a live stream in UHD quality using the new HDR image mode, making it possible to achieve an unprecedented picture quality. The opera features a star-studded cast, with Marina Rebeka in the title role, Charles Castronovo as Alfredo, Dmitri Hvorostovsky as Giorgio Germont, all under the musical direction of maestra Speranza Scappucci.

HDR stands for “high dynamic range” and represents the latest revolution in television, making for even brighter, high-contrast images with greater depth of colour and a sharper picture. The new technology enhances areas of the image that were previously either too dark or too light. “This new technology opens up a new dimension for us. Particularly in opera, we are very often faced with dark backgrounds and brightly illuminated singers and stage scenery in the foreground. The human eye has no problem with this, and can see as much of the detail in both bright and dark areas. HDR now makes it possible to broadcast operas and ballets with the original lighting envisaged by the stage director without compromising the TV pictures or using additional TV lighting disturbing to the audience. Thus HDR delivers a whole new, fantastic quality at several levels! And we are delighted that we have once again been able to introduce a cutting-edge innovation in co-operation with Samsung,” explains Dominique Meyer, Director of Vienna State Opera.

Samsung, technical partner to the Wiener Staatsoper, has integrated this new image standard in its complete current SUHD TV and UHD TV range. An HDR-enabled Samsung TV set is required in order to be able to receive La traviata in HDR. “We have established yet another milestone in the development of streaming technology with the new UHD live stream in HDR mode. Samsung not only offers terminal equipment for this new standard, but also high-quality content in collaboration with the Wiener Staatsoper. The opera experience is transmitted to TV screens around the world not only with high-fidelity sound, but also in optimal visual quality,” says Sunghan Kim, Managing Director of Samsung Electronics Austria.

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Is Still Pantomime Relevant?

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In his new show, comedian Liam Williams gives the panto a postmodern twist. We need a bit of silliness in these austere and divided times, he explains.

Nobody in history has actively wanted to be a pantomime writer, just as nobody has ever wanted to be a urinal designer or composer of the music that plays when you open birthday cards, but pantos will not write themselves. And while some wags may aver that’s a good thing, we’re having none of it. In austere and divided times, we’re embracing silliness and route-one togetherness. Yes, we’re (we hope) mordantly commenting on the international financial centre/ gentrifiers’ theme park known as London, but we’re also just trying to raise a chuckle – whether that’s a down-the-nose-snort or one that’s truly mirthful.

Ricky Whittington & His Cat is at New Diorama Theatre, NW1, 12 December to 7 January

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Natalie Portman: “I think you can’t judge your character when you play her”

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Natalie Portman had been circling the role of Jackie Kennedy for several years before finally agreeing to make Jackie, a film focusing on the days between the assassination of her husband President John F. Kennedy and his funeral. Speaking with Reuters, Portman spoke about the challenges with playing the famous First Lady.

Portman reveals that the most challenging scenes to capture were the assassination scenes because of how much historical record there is of the shooting. She explains, “You have so much liberty when you don’t really know what happened. When she is talking to the priest or her best friend, or to Bobby (Kennedy) you are free to play. But the assassination is so unimaginable and the Zapruder film (of the assassination) is so iconic that it felt very scary to do something that extreme emotionally which is constricted by reality.”

The interviewer also asked Portman if she “liked” Jackie Kennedy. Portman responded, “I think you can’t judge your character when you play her, or else you wouldn’t be able to. Now, having come to the other side, I love her. I have so much admiration for her and how she overcame this unbelievable tragedy and made a life that was really influential.“

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