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...June 1 to 16; further information here July Performance ‘Dido and Aeneas’, Melba Hall A new production of Purcell’s Baroque opera by VOYCE (Victorian Opera Youth Chorus Ensemble) in a grand Melbourne...
...by playing a selection of pieces by Henry Purcell....
...Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Laid in Earth is a doomy quartet set to the (indifferently sung) lament from Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas....
...“We don’t plan our lives around elevated emotional states,” Sebastian Purcell writes in the digital magazine Aeon....
...When the Royal Ballet first acquired Christopher Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour in 2016, it was still afflicted with the costumes designed for San Francisco Ballet eight years earlier (“discarded vegetable...
...“Increasing military investment takes us on a trajectory to war, not peace,” said Marc Purcell, chief executive of the Australian Council for International Development....
...Early in the novel, there is a reference to Christopher Isherwood’s (recycled) quip that in Bogotá “even the shoeshine boys quote Proust”. Vásquez has Mallarino tut at such exaggeration....
...Henry Purcell Dido & Aeneas Armonico Consort (Signum Classics) High tragedy, low comedy, mock sorcery — all flowed from Purcell’s pen with a prodigal ease that surely makes him the Shakespeare among...
...Conductor Harry Christophers leads a trim, affectionate performance of Purcell’s last (unfinished) semi-opera....
...As conductors Christopher Hogwood of the Academy of Ancient Music, Trevor Pinnock and John Eliot Gardiner attempted to take music by Bach, Purcell and Handel back to source — posing basic questions about...
...Printed T-shirts have also made it on to the womenswear catwalks at houses such as Moschino, Givenchy and Christopher Kane....
...For September’s Fidelio, Bieito has drawn on the work of Dark Knight director Christopher Nolan, as well as the cult 1997 movie Cube....
...Alongside a fine line-up of the acting parts, with a notable performance from Christopher Benjamin as Bottom, is a strong cast of soloists....
...We owe Egarr our thanks for this sampler – a selection of gently expressive choral anthems, organ works and instrumental fantasias that establish him as a far-from-negligible precursor of Blow and Purcell...
...I had come to see my superstar of an Oxford classical ex-pupil singing as a black-winged fairy in Purcell’s Fairy Queen....
...Harry Christophers conducts The Sixteen in a concert performance of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen on Friday, while on Friday and Saturday you can see the late opera director Herbert Wernicke’s staging of Actus...
...Perhaps because of Deller’s prominence and the nature of his recordings (Dowland, Purcell, Handel) the countertenor phenomenon started life as an obscure English quirk, but it quickly found fans abroad....
...The choreography is by Wayne McGregor and Christopher Hogwood conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment....
...In a beauty parade of anniversary composers numbering Mendelssohn, Handel and Purcell, Haydn – who died 200 years ago – was always going to be a hard sell. He wrote no popular operas....
...“She wants you to stop being safe,” observes the baritone Christopher Purves....
...The Life of Haydn By David Wyn Jones Cambridge University Press £50, 253 pages Haydn By David Vickers Naxos £12.99, 203 pages Haydn’s Visits to England By Christopher Hogwood Thames & Hudson £12.95 116...
...No sooner has Christopher Purves plumped himself down on the nearest seat than he proudly raises his under-garments, encouraging me to survey all that lies beneath....
...Adding extracts from Christopher Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage was not a bad idea in itself....
...Christopher Carter, who joined Morgan Stanley last year as vice-chairman of institutional securities based in London, will become head of global capital markets....
...Many of those who agitated for Mr Purcell’s ousting as chief executive saw the merger as the root of all ills....
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