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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....
...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....
...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....
...Michael Sheen, Barry Pepper and Amanda Peet, once in the cast, fell to the cutting room floor....
...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...
...Sue Wagner, BlackRock, COO Padmasree Warrior, Cisco Chief Technology OfficerSince 2007, previously Motorola Labs Susan Wojcicki, Google Product Management vice presidentSince 2002, previously Intel....
...Also RIM board director Katherine Tsang, Standard Chartered Bank China chairmanSince July 2009, previously SCB China CEO from 2005 Sue Wagner, BlackRock, COO...
...Until recently Amanda Roocroft began every year “looking at a black canvas with a few white dots”. This month, for a change, the soprano finds herself surveying a white canvas with a few black dots....
...Opera Holland Park has a splendid central couple in the Fiora of Amanda Echalaz, a young South African soprano who gives her all, and the Avito of Julian Gavin, a tenor at once romantic and heroic....
...Extraordinary how potent cheap music is,” proclaims Amanda, love-scarred heroine of Noel Coward’s Private Lives, and we all know what she means....
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