Following is a abstract of present leisure information briefs.

Apple raises subscription costs for TV+, News+

Apple on Wednesday elevated the subscription costs of Apple TV+ and Apple News+, in keeping with its web site, the most recent firm to boost charges following related strikes by media giants.

The per 30 days value of Apple TV+ has been elevated by $3 to $9.99, whereas Apple News+ has been priced at $12.99, up from $9.99.

Greece opens Maria Callas museum for a glimpse into opera diva’s life

From a pattern of her hair to a blue velvet costume she wore after the memorable 1955 efficiency of Verdi’s La Traviata in Milan’s La Scala, guests to Athens can now marvel at objects belonging to opera diva Maria Callas in a brand new museum devoted to the legendary soprano. Housed in a three-storey neoclassical constructing within the coronary heart of the capital, it opens its doorways on Thursday and coincides with the influential singer’s one centesimal birthday on Dec. 2.

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons will get local weather change makeover

A Spanish music director has tailored Antonio Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” to the grim actuality of worldwide warming, including prominence and drama to the summer time concerto whereas shortening the opposite three, and he believes the Italian nice wouldn’t thoughts. “I think Vivaldi would have been a lot more aggressive and gritty. If today someone were to compose ‘The Four Seasons’ from an absolutely realistic perspective, it would be frankly daring,” composer and producer Hache Costa advised Reuters.

‘The Hunger Games’ to be changed into London stage play

“The Hunger Games” is about to open at a London theatre subsequent yr within the first stay stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ novels and the vastly profitable movie franchise. Irish playwright, screenwriter and director Conor McPherson has tailored for theatre the primary e-book in Collins’s younger grownup dystopian trilogy and the primary movie from “The Hunger Games” Lionsgate film franchise, which starred Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence as heroine Katniss Everdeen.

Spotify posts quarterly revenue, person progress beats expectations

Spotify on Tuesday swung to a quarterly revenue aided by value hikes in its streaming companies and progress in subscribers in all areas, and forecast that its variety of month-to-month listeners would attain 601 million on this quarter. The firm posted a third-quarter working earnings of 32 million euros ($34.1 million), its first quarterly revenue since 2021, helped by the next gross margin and decrease advertising and personnel prices.

(With inputs from companies.)