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...This Judas is a self-portrait: the artist as betrayer of Renaissance tradition, restaging Leonardo’s “Last Supper” with icons from black history....
...Which lead singer of the band Judas Priest came out as gay on MTV in 1998? Who became the presenter of Radio 4’s PM programme in 2018?...
...“Judas” introduced a vitalising of emotion that was new to Dutch art....
...The main players in the biblical story, Jesus, Mary, Peter and Judas, and are each given their own arias, so they become flesh-and-blood characters....
...He presents Camel Quarry House in Cornwall, made by Mary Reynolds, the youngest-ever winner of a gold medal at the Chelsea Show....
..., with wetly “humanised” versions of Judas (Tahar Rahim) and Peter (Chiwetel Ejiofor)....
...The versions share an asymmetrical arrangement of high rocks rising where Christ kneels, apostles sleeping in the foreground, Judas guiding the soldiers on a distant road....
...Mary Bevan’s brilliant soprano never once failed her in the role of Mary Magdalene. Meanwhile, the Choir and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment wrestled with some demanding music....
...The opening Judas Tree was MacMillan’s last, most provocative creation, created for the Royal Ballet in 1992, with its building-site culture, its acknowledgment of Christian tradition, its fiercely inevitable...
...As the final curtain fell on the furtive obsequies of Mary Vetsera, buried at night in a country cemetery, there was massive applause....
...Anoushka Lucas’s tender Mary Magdalene delivers “I Don’t Know How to Love Him” with lilting, poignant simplicity....
...So also, thanks to other archaeological finds, the Apocrypha of Mary Magdalene and Judas could have been taken into account....
...The extended kiss between Judas and Jesus teeters on the brink of overkill, as does the physical intimacy of Mary Magdalene with Jesus....
...An ironwork gate pierced into a 12ft stone wall leads from the first garden of roses, lavender and Russian vine to a lawn surrounded by walnut, chestnut, magnolia and a towering Judas tree....
...Of the other actors, the Judas of Josh Young, especially in the Las Vegas-y “Superstar” number, emerges as the most pleasurably sung....
...SF: And is it my imagination because I love it the way you do it with Judas, Judas, Juda-gaga, that you manage to get Gaga in a lot? Do you get Gaga into the phrase Government Hooker?...
...“Oh, he will eventually get the blame that’s for sure,” said Mary Hull, a local grandmother, who was picking up seashells because she said they might no longer wash up after the damage had set in....
...It manifests itself as a fascination with theological paradox – for example, that without Judas, the traitor, there would be no crucifixion and no salvation....
...A Messiah who has an on-the-Cross reverie of sex, marriage and children with Mary Magdalene was a blasphemy. Today it seems more like a preview of The Da Vinci Code (2006)....
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