Simon Boccanegra review – vast forces bring Verdi’s ‘fiasco’ to vivid life

Simon Boccanegra review – vast forces bring Verdi’s ‘fiasco’ to vivid life

Bridgewater Hall, ManchesterOpera Rara joined with the Hallé under Sir Mark Elder for this semi-staged performance of the original version of Verdi’s opera Twenty-five years separate the action in the prologue and first act of Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra, and very nearly the same stretch of time elapsed between the opera’s first incarnation – whose opening…

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Column: AI moviemaking software ‘so easy an alien could do it.’ But where do visual effects go from here?

Column: AI moviemaking software ‘so easy an alien could do it.’ But where do visual effects go from here?

By 2023, artificial intelligence had seeped into enough corners of a nervous film industry — buoyed by Barbenheimer, but fully aware of an imminent 2024 shortage of new titles — to become a seriously effective tool of labor unrest. Last year’s Screen Actors Guild contract, achieved after a lengthy, costly staring contest with industry producers…

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