Hello and welcome to your first Daily News Roundup! This is a daily column where we select the articles and news posts from around the web that have caught our eye.
+ The Guardian’s Ian Ritchie explains how the climate impacted European artistic output in 1816.
+ David Lang’s new opera, Anatomy Theater, may be the goriest opera yet.
+ Here is a comprehensive review of Peter Sellars’ Ojai Festival 2016.
+ The New York Times’ Wesley Morris takes stock of black popular culture in America.
“The black people shaping the culture have grown not just comfortable in their blackness but also defiant in its depiction, insistent in its inextricability from their art. They’re investigating blackness, not exclusively in terms of racism but as a matter of ontology: What is it?”
+ The Calgary Philharmonic says goodbye to Maestro Roberto Minczuk.
+ Stratford Festival has announced its 2017 season, which will have a troupe of all-Canadian directors, as well as more women than ever before.
+ Quebec singer Safia Nolin has won the Félix-Leclerc prize at Montreal’s FrancoFolies music festival (French).
+ Thirty years have passed since the death of French organist and composer Maurice Duruflé.
