BERKELEY — “The Rite of Spring” is a ballet born of violence. Stravinsky’s score unfurls the furious sudden spring of his native St. Petersburg, the sounds of cracking ice on the river Neva being like ...
The classical music scene was wild. Franz Liszt was the Beatles before they were the Beatles. Ludwig van Beethoven lost his hearing—he claimed it was due to a fit of rage over being interrupted while ...
In a rehearsal studio lined by floor-to-ceiling mirrors in the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Anique Ayiboe is hunched in on herself, a ball of nerves. Tonight, the 33-year-old Togolese member of the ...