Cultural Direction

“On a freezing February night in 2006, an ailing Luciano Pavarotti rose from his wheelchair at the opening of the Turin Winter Olympics to give a resounding rendition of the aria Nessun Dorma, his final public performance before he died.” Continue  →

Nessun Dorma – Puccini, Turandot


Caruso

The bridge spans 280m across the Singapore River. At night it comes alive with computer-controlled LEDs.  Read more  →

Won’t it be strange, when the nurse
        brings the newborn infant
to the proud father, and shows its little
        webbed greenish feet
made to smite the waters behind it?
or the round, wild vivid eye of a
        wild-goose staring
out of the fathomless skies and seas?
or when it utters that undaunted little
        bird-cry
of one who will settle on ice-bergs, and
        honk across the Nile?—

And when the father says: This is none
        of mine!
Woman, where got you this little
        beast?—
will there be a whistle of wings in the
        air, and an icy draught?
will the singing of swans, high up, high
        up, invisible
break the drums of his ears
and leave him forever listening for the
        answer?