Werner Herzog will not be producing Mozart's "Magic Flute" at the Metropolitan Opera this winter. Instead the company will borrow a production by David Hockney from the San Francisco Opera. Herzog is a notoriously slow worker who took over after the death of Jean Pierre Ponnelle, who was first scheduled to do the production, and Met management feared they could not adapt Herzog's designs in time.

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- TWYLA THARP received this year's $25,000 Samuel H. Scripps-American Dance Festival award for lifetime achievement, presented at the AFD in Durham, N.C.

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