{"id":436,"date":"2007-09-27T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=436"},"modified":"2007-09-27T19:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T03:55:00","slug":"the-latest-from-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/the-latest-from-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"The latest from Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IwnSQPl-J_I\/RvzLm0uGCqI\/AAAAAAAAAWo\/kn5y7DMV7dw\/s1600-h\/phaedra5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" data-src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IwnSQPl-J_I\/RvzLm0uGCqI\/AAAAAAAAAWo\/kn5y7DMV7dw\/s400\/phaedra5.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5115187144633485986\" border=\"0\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:78%;color:#333333;\">Hans Werner Henze\u2019s \u201cPhaedra\u201d. All photos \u00a9 Ruth Walz,<br \/>courtesy Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those good people at signandsight have been busy again, and here are their latest offerings in English translation of cultural events in Europe.<span class=\"on\" style=\"display: block;\" id=\"formatbar_CreateLink\" title=\"Link\" onmouseover=\"ButtonHoverOn(this);\" onmouseout=\"ButtonHoverOff(this);\" onmouseup=\"\" onmousedown=\"CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 8);ButtonMouseDown(this);\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.signandsight.com\/features\/1560.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">In the cradle of the Phaedra myth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hans Werner Henze\u2019s fourteenth opera \u201cPhaedra\u201d almost cost him his<br \/>life. Now the premiere has taken place in Berlin. Volker Hagedorn<br \/>visited the eighty-one-year-old composer at his home above the Tiber<br \/>valley, where he has lived and worked since 1953.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.signandsight.com\/features\/1557.html\">Nonchalance out of the depths<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Biolay is France\u2019s new Serge Gainsbourg. He is pioneer of the<br \/>\u201cNouvelle Chanson,\u201d even if he rejects the term. And basically he<br \/>sings about one thing: love, nothing but love. By Elke Buhr (Photo \u00a9<br \/>Bruce Weber, courtesy Virgin Records France \/ EMI)<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.signandsight.com\/features\/1550.html\">Building on the past<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Swiss architect Peter Zumthor\u2019s new Kolumba art museum for the<br \/>Archbishopric of Cologne is magnificently successful, in terms of both<br \/>material presence and dignified handling of the past. Sitting astride<br \/>a Gothic church, an archeological site and a 1950s chapel, it builds<br \/>on a history stretching back thousands of years. By J\u00f6rg Biesler<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hans Werner Henze\u2019s \u201cPhaedra\u201d. All photos \u00a9 Ruth Walz,courtesy Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin Those good people at signandsight have been busy again, and here are their latest offerings in English translation of cultural&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}