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...All the big-hitters are here — a new and presumably epic production of Aida, Zeffirelli’s Carmen and Madama Butterfly, a “pyrotechnic” Il Barbiere di Siviglia and gala events with Plácido Domingo and Jonas...
...Paul Breckell Chief Executive, Action on Hearing Loss Charlie Johnson Chief Executive, ADC Biotechnology Dr Shahzad Malik General Partner, Advent Life Sciences Dr Angel Salazar Chief Executive, AIDA...
...Or (b) fit painlessly into a middling-competent team?...
...Aspen Built in 1889 by Jerome B Wheeler, former co-owner of Macy’s, the venerable redbrick Hotel Jerome has tended to trade on its 19th-century, not to say Wild West, origins....
...Yet shortly before, in a concert for Steven Kovacevich’s birthday, she took such crazy risks with Liszt’s Sonata in B minor that she almost came unstuck....
...American director Roger Corman – the B-movie legend who mentored, among others, James Cameron and Frances Ford Coppola – is celebrated with a retrospective. Runs until June 28....
...Sonja Frisell’s Cecil B. DeMillish production of Aida, first seen in 1988, is back, and the crowds are happy....
...His shading of the top B flat ending to “Celeste Aida” was especially welcome....
...Though the infant mortality rate in filmed opera is high – famed fiascos include 1953’s Aida with Sophia Loren miming to Renata Tebaldi’s voice – we can think in compensation of Syberberg’s Parsifal, Losey...
...Many residents scattered to safer parts of Mostar and further afield, though Aida Omanovic, head of the American Refugee Council (ARC) in Mostar, recalls one family that stayed put during the entire war...
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