Brexit move: UK Academy lands Venice residency
mainThe Cambridge-based Academy of Ancient Music period ensemble has earned associate status at the Teatro San Cassiano in Venice.
It is the first ensemble chose by the theatre, which is being restored to its original 1637 dimensions and is holding fundraising galas to achieve that end.
Britain is due to leave the EU at the end of the month, after which residencies will become tougher to obtain.
Shurely shome mishtake? Brexit was meant to have us all dying of the plague within weeks of the referendum instead of the gradual economic growth and international cooperation which has actually continued since that day.
You said “actually” so it must be true. Remind me what gdp growth was this year and how median incomes have changed over the last 20 years.
You mean while we were in the EU?
Britain hasn’t left the EU yet. Maybe it will next year.
“Britain is due to leave the EU at the end of the month, after which residencies will become tougher to obtain.” Flow, my (liberal) tears.
The word “restored” does not do this project justice. The idea is to build a replica of the seventeenth-century theater from the ground up, complete with stage machinery of the period, as a venue for the performance of baroque opera: https://www.teatrosancassiano.it/en/about-us
Will the replica have electricity?
If so it is not a real replica. Candles, horse dung outside, no heating or aircon, no telephones anywhere, no modern toilets: just great for performances (waste thrown out windows).
The teatro S.Cassiano is one of the oldest theatre in the city.It had disappeared but I guess it has been restored.Not that this has any importance but my fathers house was in that area very close to S.Cassiano
It has not yet been restored, there is a project to rebuild it from the ground up, but as far as I know it’s still at the planning/fundraising stage. I’m a bit surprised that they are already announcing artist residencies, lovely though it is.