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...Among my top picks are Santa María del Naranco, in a meadow high above Oviedo, built for King Ramiro I in the mid-ninth century, and San Julián de los Prados, whose stucco walls are covered in paintings....
...As We See It: Artists Redefining Black Identity by Aida Amoako is published by Laurence King Publishing at £30 The first book from the David Lynch Foundation explores transcendental meditation through art...
...Three days before welcoming King Felipe and Queen Letizia for the opera’s official opening, the Teatro Real was hosting a special “youth preview” limited to people between 18 and 35 years of age, who got...
...king....
...Héctor Luisi’s suggestion (Letters, June 7) of Aida as the right opera for the current euro mess is too bleak. Gideon Rachman (June 5) was right in picking Wagner’s Ring....
...Robert Winslade Anderson offers a dignified Ramfis, though Matthew Best sounds wavery as the King....
...During a visit to Aida, the nearby Palestinian refugee camp, it was noticeable how my guide Marwan Frarjeh spoke about the artist with familiarity and warmth....
...Soon after the curtain rises in Verdi’s Aida, the warrior-hero sings an ode to his beloved, calling the pseudo slave-girl “celestial”....
...Following Toscan du Plantier’s death, King Mohammed VI of Morocco decided that Mrs Toscan du Plantier should continue to run the festival....
...None of them has an ideal voice for their role, although the basses come closer, with Keel Watson as the King and, especially, Graeme Broadbent sounding implacable as Ramfis....
...She discovered Nat King Cole and James Brown around the same time but the Met broadcasts became her Saturday ritual, and she would regale her classmates with detailed accounts on Monday mornings....
...Takuji Aida, senior economist in Tokyo at UBS, believes the BoJ’s facilities have had a profound impact on companies’ attitudes to saving....
...There’s not even solace in the singing, barring Robert Lloyd’s ever-reliable King and Marcelo Alvarez’s workmanlike Radames....
...But unlike those of most King’s alumni, Gardner’s performances span an emotional range that belies his classic English schooling....
...Tenor Rafael Dávila, in beefy voice, contributes a sturdy portrayal of Joan’s king and would-be lover, Charles VII....
...(Sanderson’s footwear designs for Aida are set to be unveiled in April at the Royal Opera House.)...
...SalzburgKulturtage Returning for its annual season of opera, ballet and concerts, this festival opens on Friday with Prague State Opera’s production of Verdi’s Aida at the Grosses Festspielhaus....
...Lou Reed, Kings of Leon and The Killers will perform this year. It costs around £126 for a three-day ticket....
...The props are being used in Carlo Rizzi’s and Gareth Jones’s production of Aida, which opens the festival on July 22....
...are useful contributions from David Soar’s King and Andrew Gangestad’s High Priest....
...Among the basses, Carlo Colombara is strong as the high priest, Dimitri Kavrakos weak as the king....
...Claire Rutter’s Aida and Jane Dutton’s Amneris have appreciable merits, but the most Verdian singing comes from Brindley Sherratt’s Ramfis, Iain Paterson’s Amonasro and Gwynne Howell’s King....
...The audience will not find the transcendent thrills of The Lion King. They will not even find the resonant spiritual grace of Aida....
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