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...Wagner said the company “will deal with the challenge” if the tax credits went away....
...Kurt Wagner, Illuminate USA’s chief financial officer, told the Financial Times that the partnership with Longi gives the US the opportunity to “really catch up on the technology”....
...Goldman also notes that Prigozhin’s Wagner mercenaries operate in Libya and could disrupt its oil output....
...Saint-Saëns’ measured admiration for Wagner is evident in its leitmotifs, but its historical subject allied it with French grand opera, then on the decline....
...The US estimates there are 50,000 Wagner fighters deployed in Ukraine and that they played a major role in the recent campaign in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. 5....
...As in the recent Royal Opera production, the title role was sung by Amanda Majeski....
...Amanda Woodbury sings with generosity of voice, but less than an ideal classical cut as the Countess, and Emily Pogorelc is the bright-voiced Cherubino....
...According to literary critic Amanda Vaill, “people have been copying him for nearly 100 years”, but no one’s quite nailed his terse style....
...Eric Halfvarson, sounding rather cavernous these days, is an experienced Hagen and there is good support from Amanda Majeski’s Gutrune and Shenyang’s Gunther....
...Since standard orchestral programmes end before most Wagner operas call their first intermission, any symphony orchestra seriously devoted to Wagner should noticeably increase its endurance....
...It is an epic undertaking, retaining 15 lead roles of Buñuel’s cast, and the orchestra is vast, including ondes martenot, Wagner tubas, whip, washboard, saucepans, anvil, lion’s roar, and more....
...Amanda Majeski is a lovely, silvery-voiced Eva. Hanna Hipp’s well-sung Magdalene is nicely complemented by David Portillo’s lively David....
...Abby and Red fell in love in 1959; now they’re getting on a bit, and their kids — Amanda, Jeannie, Denny and Stem — have to figure out how best to help them....
...Abla Lynn Hamza and Caroline Worra excelled as Ophelia and Gertrude, with Alex Richardson singing valiantly as Hamlet. Amleto deserves to be taken up by other companies. operasouthwest.org...
...Lynn Wyatt, wife of oil billionaire Oscar Wyatt and Texas’s reigning social queen, announced: “Karl, you can wear it in Gstaad, you can wear it everywhere.”...
...Wide silk belts emphasised the waist, and at Amanda Wakeley too the waist was key....
...This month alone has already seen significant London openings of plays written by actors Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag), Louise Brealey (Pope Joan) and Simon Callow (Inside Wagner’s Head, which admittedly...
...Amanda Seyfried and Peter Saarsgard are good as the Beauty and Beast of the 1970s porn industry in Lovelace....
...And so it did, thanks to a high-concept catalogue photographed by Nick Knight, styled by Amanda Harlech, and featured everywhere from V to the Daily Mail....
...Right place, right time: there is no better way to celebrate impending thunder than a cranky dose of Wagner....
...Michael Sheen, Barry Pepper and Amanda Peet, once in the cast, fell to the cutting room floor....
...The new school was epitomised by Lynn Barber, now with The Sunday Times, who carried a hatchet as well as a tape recorder. At the same time, the public relations industry was becoming ubiquitous....
...To the recurring swell of Wagner’s Tristan chord, Trier delivers the opening tableaux: trance-like, semi-frozen, surreal. A bride, carrying an infant, struggles across a miry golf course....
...Like Wagner, Jones sees a serious point behind it all....
...Then it’s a weekend of heavy-duty opera: on Saturday, Bryn Terfel makes his Proms debut as Hans Sachs in Welsh National Opera’s Mastersingers, alongside soprano Amanda Roocroft and baritone Christopher Purves...
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