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...May 24 to 26; further information here Performance ‘Tosca’, Margaret Court Arena An epic staging of Puccini’s political thriller by the UK’s Opera North, with sopranos Nadine Benjamin and Karah Son sharing...
...Additional contributions from Tee Zhuo and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...Thorvaldsdottir’s pieces for vocal ensemble and, especially, Meredith’s consoling Heal You for three solo women’s voices (Nadine Benjamin, Anna Dennis, Susan Bickley, all excellent) lifted the emotional...
...The economists Benjamin Nabarro and Christian Schulz, contributing to the Green Budget of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, make an intriguing argument....
...Then they rip into Friday Afternoons, Benjamin Britten’s cycle of 12 songs for children....
...Writing to Benjamin Disraeli, W.G. Meredith said of his time at Brasenose College, ‘‘It is quite amusing to hear the noise in our quad which usually takes place at about 11 or 12 o’clock....
...Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century, by Paul Kildea, Allen Lane, RRP£30 Kildea has done everyone a service by refusing to allow moral judgments to cloud his biographical brief....
...This autumn, Mira Calix will premiere a piece she is writing in collaboration with the young classical composer Anna Meredith....
...Meredith Blake, TV writer for the Los Angeles Times ……………………….. Life of Jerry 1936 Born in Brooklyn 1961 Junior copywriter, Daniel & Charles 1967 Founds Jerry Della Femina & Partners....
...“This house has given the first performances of so many important operas, there’s no way we could discontinue that tradition,” he says, alluding to the premieres of Benjamin Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia...
...Franklin started up in partnership with a friend, Hugh Meredith, instead of as a one-man band. They used capital borrowed from family – Meredith’s father – rather than a commercial lender....
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