Hints and tips:
...When he was a kid, Christy’s family lived in the UK for a bit and he sometimes puts on an English accent. He’s also acquired some expensive tastes: sports cars, nice clothes and luxury apartments....
...She has that no-nonsense bravura one associates with English country dames....
...Coincidentally, this week is also the anniversary the 1707 Act of Union coming into force, when the English and Scottish kingdoms first united....
...It is now being translated into English for the first time....
...Isabel Leonard of New York made the indulgent misery of his beloved sympathetic, neatly seconded by Anna Christy of Pasadena as her twittery friend....
...In a cave beneath those cliffs Robert the Bruce allegedly saw the spider whose web-weaving labours inspired him to resume battle with the English....
...An unlikely memorial runs across the middle of the marketplace in Kettering — an otherwise unremarkable English market town....
...Anna Christy sang a glittering Morgana, her bright soprano enhanced with tasteful vibrato, and Anna Devin was impressive as Oberto....
...But discounts of 10 to 15 per cent “should be achievable”, says Letuve, who recently sold a new-build, four-bedroom villa near Grimaud, on the market for €5.5m, to an English client for €4.7m....
...“We can now legitimately compete with Sotheby’s and Christies,” Mr Hall said....
...“Hats are part of English dress and culture, but we have an international audience that is seduced by glamour – and there is nothing more glamorous than a hat,” says Foster’s mentor Philip Treacy, whose...
...That is the aspect of the story that Christopher Alden’s production, new to English National Opera, makes an obsession....
...That may have been English National Opera’s reasoning when it invited Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre’s director, Michael Keegan-Dolan, to stage Handel’s opera about Caesar’s conquest of Egypt....
...Between these, the meandering moderato sections need a more charismatic baritone than Hanno Müller-Brachmann, the soprano lines a more substantial voice than Anna Christy’s....
...Who knows which generation of Christies was responsible for the ruined wine? The family bought the house in 1833....
...Nor is this a matter of an English theatrical sensibility approaching such folksy material with too much reverence....
...He did get seduced by rhythms, by cadences, by the structure that English takes on if you sit it on top of an Irish language....
...Anna Christy, erupting in a barrage of coloratura at the slightest pretext, is a delight as Kitty, and Daniel Okulitch gives a he-man performance as Abdul....
...Anna Christy made a sparkling Tytania, Willard White a majestic Bottom. Benedict Nelson and Tamara Gura were the standout lovers....
...She was also inspired by the artist and environmentalist Liz Christy, whose Green Guerrilla movement established community gardens in derelict Manhattan lots in the 1970s....
...It helps that Anna Christy is back in the title role....
...And I am not English. I am Australian and I’m a woman. I have a real affinity with these young girls.”...
...The Christies were all for it, as Britten had promised Audrey there would be a part in it for her pug. What a Glyndebourne premiere that could have been....
...To an extent, an English audience will still watch this play with an air of patronising colonialism....
...Toby Spence is wide-eyed boyishness personified as Candide and Anna Christy a sparkling, if small-voiced Cunégonde....
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