For a week, Jerusalem’s contested and fractious Old City lightens up

For a week, Jerusalem’s contested and fractious Old City lightens up
JERUSALEM — When night falls on the Old City of Jerusalem this week, the walled enclave sheds its role as one of the world’s most contested pieces of real estate to become a luminous carnival of art installations and performances. Jerusalem’s Festival of Lights, now in its third year, illuminates an area known more for religious friction and clashing political claims than for art or nightlife …
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Prague to host world premiere of Vivaldi’s lost opera
PRAGUE, June 18 – A Prague festival will host the world premiere of Antonio Vivaldi’s opera L’Unione della Pace, e di Marte, following its reconstruction by a Czech expert 284 years after its only performance. “It’s a specific genre of Baroque opera, shorter, which is called ‘la serenata’ and which was composed for a specific occasion at that …
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I feared my World Cup dream was wrecked, reveals Cueto following fracas with Day
The final months before a World Cup represent a tense, sudden-death phase for players — a time when a tear or break, strain or pull, punch or stamp, can destroy the dream. In that sense, Mark Cueto has managed to dodge two bullets with his name on them.
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