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...December 14 to 24; further information and tickets here ‘The Nutcracker’, Royal Albert Hall The Sugar Plum Fairy is back in town....
...If you can’t make the Royal Albert Hall, this year there are events in location as varied as Great Yarmouth, Derry, Aberystwyth and Dewsbury....
...Putin has also followed the oligarch strategy of cultivating and then dropping temporary allies: Wagner group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, Germany and France, and now North Korea....
...The unique, cathedral-like arena of the Royal Albert Hall works a dream in this opera, imbuing it with a sense of infinite time and space....
...Arnold Bezuyen played Mime, bizarrely portrayed as a collector of toys, without exaggeration and Albert Dohmen sang an almost noble Hagen....
...The final event in the two-month-long classical music festival, which was due to be held on Saturday evening at London’s Royal Albert Hall, will not go ahead “as a mark of respect”, according to a statement...
...The novel starts as office drama — Nella, 26, is thrilled when Hazel joins Wagner Books, hoping to make friends with the “other black girl” in a white liberal Manhattan publishing firm — but dives into bolder...
...Who could have guessed two weeks ago that footage of a man gaily entering the Victoria and Albert Museum could look so poignant?...
...Their joint trips to see concerts at the Royal Albert Hall had a deeper emotional purpose, too....
...one of the most prominent German composers of his generation, and his massive, exuberant Requiem, which goes at it hammer-and-tongs, is a clear descendant of the attention-seeking grandeur and glamour of Wagner...
...Like so many Jewish émigrés of his era, Steiner knew his Wagner, and there is a hypnotic slice of Tristan und Isolde buried in the middle of it....
...This time last year the Royal Opera cleared the decks right through to November for cycles of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen....
...Simon Schama FT contributing editor Albert Cohen, Belle du Seigneur....
...Although Wagner himself conducted at the Royal Albert Hall, there was a lengthy period when his music was not heard here much....
...Wallin’s music had only previously been played in chamber-music Proms, not at the Royal Albert Hall....
...It’s always a struggle to fill the gigantic barn that is the Royal Albert Hall, but this performance could have filled three of them....
...Some great dry Riesling producers ALSACE Boxler Albert Mann Josmeyer Kientzler Kuentz-Bas Meyer-Fonné Muré André Ostertag Schoffit Trimbach Domaine Weinbach (Faller) Zind-Humbrecht AUSTRALIA Crawford...
...Wagner Parsifal The Hallé (Hallé) A live recording of Parsifal from the BBC Proms in 2013 takes The Hallé one step nearer a complete Wagner opera cycle on disc....
...These symphonies are part Brahms, part Wagner, part Strauss, and their place alongside those German masters has never seemed more convincing. Barenboim’s speech talked of a shared European culture....
...Radicalism, both musical and otherwise, haunted Wagner’s Tannhäuser (“Personal struggle! Morality!”)...
...He had agreed to do a gigantic painting for the Spanish pavilion — right next door to Albert Speer’s monstrous Nazi tower — to showcase contemporary Spanish art and boost international support for the Republican...
...Opera’s role as “the soundtrack to the history of Europe” will be the subject of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s big autumn exhibition, in its first ever partnership with the Royal Opera House....
...Albert Cousins, a deputy district attorney, is an uninvited guest who arrives bearing a bottle of gin, a drink that laces its juniper scent throughout this wonderful novel. Cousins surveys the scene....
...The new theatre will open its doors with Tosca, starring international tenor Joseph Calleja, and fully staged Wagner follows with a new production of Die Walküre....
...There are times when even the vast Royal Albert Hall can seem to shrink to the size of somebody’s living room. It did for an unscheduled encore at this Prom....
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