I like watching Korean soap operas.

I will show you this next thing, speaking of costumes for operas.

In Venezuela, one of the most popular soap operas has a heroine called Crystal.

And I designed three operas with him, and the most recent one, King Arthur.

From what I understand, those who watch Korean soap operas basically are women with nothing to do.

A few centuries later, when he was your age, Franz Schubert was doing the dishes for his family, but that did not keep him from composing two symphonies, four operas and two complete masses as a youngster.

As his career grew, David Byrne went from playing CBGB to Carnegie Hall. He asks Does the venue make the music? From outdoor drumming to Wagnerian operas to arena rock, he explores how context has pushed musical innovation.

The resulting pressure on Europe s performing arts institutions is causing concern at various different levels. Traditionally, Europe s social democracies have preferred allocating scarce goods and services like concerts and operas by queues (financed by huge subsidies to keep prices low) rather than by willingness to pay.

Many TV producers have internalized these controls so well that they are an unconscious fact of life, and audiences now entertained by endless costume dramas and soap operas are not clamoring for freer political content. Barring some catastrophic change, this method of information control can be expected to continue well into the 21st century.

Since the late 1970 s, and especially during the 1980 s and 1990 s, Berlusconi's three private TV channels have portrayed a false and illusory model of quick success, as seen in American soap operas such as Dallas. Since the 1990 s, his channels broadcast Big Brother and Italian variety shows dominated by male comedians, musclemen, and scantily clad young girls, popularly known as veline.