Music
Record of the largest orchestra in the world in Venezuela
Venezuela set the Guinness World Record for ” largest orchestra in the world »: 8,573 local musicians performed the Marche slave by Tchaikovsky. They are a member of the country’s National System of Youth Orchestras, nicknamed “El Sistema”, founded in 1975 to provide access to musical education to children from the lower classes.. Gustavo Dudamel, musical director of the Paris Opera and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, is one of his former students.
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Theater
Olivier Letellier, new director of Tréteaux de France
Born in 1972, Olivier Letellier was trained at the Jacques-Lecoq International School before creating the Théâtre du Phare company in Champigny-sur-Marne. He has also been an associate artist at the Théâtre national de Chaillot, at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris but also in the region. Director and teacher, Olivier Letellier ” intends to make Les Tréteaux de France an instrument aimed primarily at young people, but which aims to reach a much wider audience », Indicates the Ministry of Culture. He will take up his duties at 1is July 2022, succeeding Robin Renucci, at the head of the Tréteaux de France since 2011.
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Movie theater
Asghar Farhadi ready to give up representing Iran at the Oscars
While his latest film A hero was chosen by the Iranian government to represent the country at the Oscars, the filmmaker defends himself in an open letter posted on Instagram from any ambiguous position vis-à-vis the authorities. Speaking to the authorities, he stressed that he did not “Never had the slightest affinity with your attitude and your retrograde ideas” and says he is ready for this decision to be overturned.
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