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...childlike in Strauss’s title role, much helped by Raimund Orfeo Voigt’s singer-friendly sets, shifting, boxlike rooms that double as acoustic shells; John Daszak is a magnificently overwrought Herodes, Angela...
...Meanwhile, in a chapter entitled “Worrying Verdicts”, she speaks of Michael Shirley, who spent 16 years in prison for a murder he always maintained he didn’t commit....
...In addition to her short and long fiction, she has written a biography of Ocampo (a close friend of Borges’s whose work Enríquez describes as a “blend of insane Angela Carter with the originality of Clarice...
...was Angela Merkel’s comment when asked about the fact that there was a woman on the podium at this year’s Bayreuth Festival....
...activist Angela Davis....
...But last Thursday, following Chancellor Angela Merkel’s announcement of a November lockdown, the Bavarian state government ordered the opera to reduce the audience for its remaining performances from 500...
...“There is the huge disconnect between the public and lawmakers, and specifically Republican lawmakers,” said Angela Kuefler of the Democratic pollster Global Strategy Group, who conducted the poll....
...Angela Merkel sits a stone’s throw from the spot where the policeman is killed. The man was just doing his duty....
...Angela Merkel, in a frog-green dress that perfectly matched the inexplicably grass-coloured Gottfried’s silent appearance at the end of the opera, applauded with evident enthusiasm, along with a crowd so...
...The composer (Angela Brower) is forced to “conduct” the entire second act on stage, a tautology so irritating that it can only have been introduced for want of any better ideas....
...Over the years, many women writers, from Austen to Angela Carter and, more recently, Lauren Beukes and Carmen Maria Machado, who read Radcliffe’s rousing stories, went on to tell their own....
...Chancellor Angela Merkel, president Frank-Walter Steinmeier, mayor Michael Müller and their cohort stayed for the whole evening, but a number of audience members fled at the interval....
...At Saturday’s performance, a high-carat audience that included Angela Merkel reacted with rapture as well-paid singers in expensive costumes portrayed the poor and destitute....
...Angela Brower’s brightly sung Composer is present throughout the opera, observing earnestly....
...There was a movement to allow women to do more work and go to school,” says Shirley So, co-founder of GLO Kitchen+Fitness, a gym and café in Beijing....
...non-liturgical texts tell of consolation, futility, transience and transcendence, singers move through and with the throng, held together by conductors Simon Halsey and Nicolas Fink, while Philip Mayers and Angela...
...Julia Kleiter and Angela Brower are accomplished but unremarkable as Fiordiligi and Dorabella; Mauro Peter and Alessia Arduino both sound thoroughly frayed by the end of the evening as Ferrando and Guglielmo...
...Shirley Williams, one of the founders of the Social Democratic party, is the most prominent politician to feature, being named a Companion of Honour....
...Angela Merkel, who often attends Bayreuth openings, stayed away. Wise woman. To August 28, bayreuther-festspiele.de...
...In Peace Salon, 41-year-old Angela Salman gestures upwards at her stylist, who is flicking at her black bob weave with tiny scissors. “I’ve been getting my hair done here for over 12 years....
...Rumour had it that the strangely fragmented premiere on Germany’s national reunification day weekend was timed to fit in with Angela Merkel’s busy schedule; certainly Andrea Moses’ soft-touch staging, draped...
...Dresden performers have their own worries, with up to 15,000 protesters gathering every Monday in the square by the Semperoper to bay for the blood of refugees and of Angela Merkel....
...creative officer and chief executive, Burberry 13 Alex Schultz , vice-president, growth, Facebook 14 Vivienne Ming , managing partner, Socos 15 Paul Wood , chief risk and compliance officer, Bloomberg 16 Angela...
...At Madrid’s Teatro Real, Angela Denoke manages to be both Queen of Thessaly and Princess of Wales....
...Tara Erraught is more comfortable in the role of Sesto, with a final aria that is genuinely heart-rending; Hanna-Elisabeth Müller and Angela Brower sing with expressive ease as Servillia and Annio....
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