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...Acts announced so far include Andrea Bocelli and Robbie Williams — with plenty more to come. 2023’s line-up included Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen and Guns N’ Roses....
...In this performance, there were traces of McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea; late in the set, he referenced compositions by Billy Strayhorn, Cole Porter and Thelonious Monk....
...It is a vast tome on the multi-dimensional effect of Wagner’s music on the world....
...Cultural references are lightly flung out here — Wagner, Michelangelo — to resonate later. The film also tests our knowledge, inter alia, of Ozymandias and its authorship....
...Billy French has lost his mother, his father, and the love of his life, Julia, in the past year; in the wake of the break-up he twice admitted himself to a psychiatric ward, where he underwent electroshock...
...: “Listening to Wagner’s opera for three hours, I glanced at my watch, and 15 minutes had gone by.”...
...’s observation on watching Wagner’s Ring cycle: “The opera started at 8....
...To buy a ticket to one of his productions is to learn the truth of the old story told by the Hollywood director Billy Wilder after he was taken to an instalment of Wagner’s Ring cycle ....
...Wagner, for instance, is 200 – but does that matter? Since his music is so deeply embedded in the cultural life of the western world, a mere birth-date seems irrelevant....
...Bertrand de Billy drives the pace forwards and holds the reins short. His is a well-crafted Tannhäuser with occasional flashes of wit but little poetry....
...The story combines dramatic, political, scientific and psychological strains ranging from Wagner’s Das Rheingold, in which miners are subject to violent servitude at the hands of power and wealth-crazed...
...Don’t misread me: marathons can be punishing bores, summoning to mind Billy Wilder’s experience at an evening of Wagner: “The opera began at eight....
...I once asked the director Billy Wilder if he wanted to go with me to see Tony Kushner’s epic Angels in America. For me, this was an invitation to a masterwork....
...August 7-9, Grant Park, Chicago www.lollapalooza.com Electric Picnic, Ireland Billy Bragg, Madness and Basement Jaxx will perform in a country estate north of Dublin. Tickets are around £212....
...His final stage appearance was – appropriately enough – as one of the Mastersingers in the concert performance of Wagner’s opera that brought the 2006 Edinburgh festival to an end....
...THE LETTING GO Bonnie “Prince” Billy Domino The alt-country singer-songwriter Bonnie “Prince” Billy went to Iceland to record his latest album, and the results are suitably eerie....
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