Theater
Quickies: Maud Powell Wins Grammy, Fela Kuti on Bandcamp, Prototype Opera Fest, Kronos Quartet Scoring Clint Mansell, Strauss' Zarathustra
WhatsOnStage.com Editor Terri Paddock Let Go, Looking into Legal Action vs. Theatremania
In a shock move, the editor of the WhatsOnStage website has been let go by the site's new owners. She has now told The Stage newspaper that she has handed the matter over to her solicitors. Era of the "Fat Lady" is Over, Says American Soprano Danielle de Niese
The American soprano Danielle de Niese, has told the Daily Telegraph newspaper that the era of the "fat lady" stereotype in opera is over. Or rather that it has no basis in fact, though it might linger in the media and people's imaginations.
