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Jancis Robinson’s series about how to build an affordable cellar
...Those investments include a heavily impaired £30mn stake in a challenger bank, more than £40mn in property funds managed by M7 and a further £47mn in often-opaque investment vehicles at Robinson’s own firm...
...Runnicles fails to bring out much of the delicate filigree of Strauss’s graceful orchestral score but he gains bonus points for being such a good sport about being portrayed as a philanderer onstage....
...Most startling is the decision to double-cast Cherubino (a male role written for a female voice) as a young deaf man with a high libido and a chiselled body; “Cherubina”, a servant who loves him, “translates...
...It has a hectoring, agitprop feel to it, capped off by a burning house (hello, Greta) and, finally, a massive children’s choir....
...She survived Auschwitz, and her play, which went on to become a television drama, a feature film, a novel and an opera, is an examination of her experiences there....
...A huge orchestra, a top-drawer cast, a high-carat stage director and a fine conductor — what’s not to love? Glanert, who has already penned a dozen operas, knows what he is doing....
...Robinson was born in Atlanta in 1935, a scion of a prominent southern banking family....
...His staging for the Staatsoper had the titular water-nymph as a disaffected young woman from a Berlin houseshare, whose lust for the rich boy upstairs causes her to mutate into a kind of distended earwig...
...Rufus Didwiszus’s sets and Victoria Behr’s costumes present us with a kind of dismal high camp on the tundra — Dodon’s kingdom is nothing but a patch of dry scrub, with a dead tree for the titular golden...
...Petrenko used the considerable force of a Berliner Philharmoniker on top form as a narrator, drawing us into a completely theatrical experience....
...Owning a vineyard still seems to be as popular a dream as running a restaurant, and it need not require nearly as much work....
...But even for those born with perfect pitch and a photographic memory, there are no shortcuts. As a pianist, a choral singer, and later a cellist and orchestral player, Chan had a good start....
...After some time, a girl dressed as a beekeeper enters, carrying a fishing net which she uses as a stick to tap her way through the set....
...He was offered a job in Champagne but decided that would be a bit boring (that word again) so applied for the Sicavac job instead. “I’m very happy here,” he told me, “because it’s a family....
...Surely, if there was a way to be a woman without playing either a wench or a man, Mary embodied it. Not here. What a lost opportunity. ★★★☆☆ To February 11, oper-leipzig.de...
...Robinson knows her biblical scholarship, and she is no literalist, remarking that to propose anything other than human authorship is “a notable instance of our having a lower opinion of ourselves than the...
...His Amarones are a world away from commercial examples....
...It is a skill set. This was the instant when the evening became more than a chamber music concert....
...Salome instead gives a short punk performance and then strips with a matter-of-fact innocence, like a child at a medical examination, to her underwear....
...It was surprisingly easy to confuse a fine Grüner with a fine Chardonnay....
...But a more easily graspable point is that cork forests act as a significant carbon sink....
...Arguably a more significant development is the Spanish wine revolution....
...But I have a colleague on Jancis Robinson.com, Tamlyn Currin, who specialises in detailed analysis of the interaction between her inventive dishes on the one hand and her cellar on the other....
...Even a tasting of a winery’s basic range costs $81 on average and, if visitors want a tour too, they could end up paying far more....
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