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...Blanchard’s score deftly integrates jazz and gospel into an operatic framework, alternating lyrical, soaring arias with recitatives sung over a 12-bar blues....
...Sophie Koch tackles the ambivalent figure of Lisa with intelligence and nuance; Charles Workman communicates the moral weaknesses of her husband Walter with chilling conviction; Jacques Imbrailo makes a...
...The A Wok Around Chinatown food tour costs C$110 ($81/£64) per person What for you are the highlights of Vancouver’s Chinatown? Tell us in the comments below....
...He then worked for [French fashion designer] Jean-Charles Castelbajac, “handling ties and accessories for the Japanese and Korean market....
...Talk to Chuck Last year, Charles Schwab weathered a banking crisis, lay-offs and a falling stock price....
...“Charles gave it to me after I created the set for his show in 2020,” says Costin....
...Lukasz Goliński was the sturdily sung, not very charismatic Orest, and Charles Workman an effective Ägisth. Any director of Elektra has to make the choice where to place the action....
...The dining chairs and table (a set is currently on sale on 1stDibs for $54,000) and the rocking chaise (currently on sale for $36,500) speak to the work of Scottish Arts and Crafts master Charles Rennie...
...The spectacular playroom also features a barrel-vaulted ceiling with a skylight and, above the fireplace, painter Charles Corwin’s mural of the story of “The Fisherman and the Genie” from The Arabian Nights...
...“C’mon Billy” was a pressing number about a woman calling for the absent man who fathered her child. Then the mood switched to the hazy title track from 2007’s White Chalk....
...Jean Paul Gaultier viscose The Body Morphing minidress, £600, doverstreetmarket.com Large Triangles, 2022, by Jesús Pedraglio, $16,000, artsy.net Charles Rennie Mackintosh 1970s wood revolving bookcase...
...Much of Murphy’s own research has been with the tiny nematode worm C elegans, which possesses only 959 cells (by comparison, we have more than 50 trillion)....
...The choir’s rendition of Handel’s Zadok The Priest, sung in the most sacred moment of the service as the King was anointed with oil behind a screen, was a triumph....
...Fogelberg joins from Kirkland & Ellis, where she was a partner and worked with C Street founder Jon Henes, a former Kirkland & Ellis partner....
...Neither an opera nor an oratorio, L’Allegro is an adaptation of two poems by John Milton, with a short third part added by Handel’s librettist, Charles Jennens....
...Their opening exhibition, a group show of about a dozen artists including Alvaro Barrington and Sung Tieu, has work inspired by the history and nature of the building....
...Charles Bonas is a fifth-generation trader....
...In the morning John Butt and his Dunedin Consort travelled from Edinburgh to perform Mozart’s C Minor Mass, as finished by Clemens Kemme, and some Bach family extras....
...One is reminded of Charles Ryder in Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, pathetically craving the gilded halls of high society while fretting about words like “righty-o.”...
...In 2017, a 37m-high rocket inscribed with Chanel’s double-C logo almost did, rising up like a NASA simulator at the end of its AW17 presentation....
...Shapps met Biden and US climate envoy John Kerry at Windsor Castle this month for talks about climate change convened by King Charles and said he explained how, as energy secretary, he could be sent to jail...
...The role of Elizabeth I was beautifully sung by mezzo Christine Rice, even if Britten probably intended more of a mature, lyric-dramatic soprano....
...The soundtrack blends glum ballads — “Stars” sung by Nina Simone and Janis Ian — and commissioned electronic sound from Wibke Tiarks, plus a blast of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas....
...Christine Rice was a glowingly sung Brangäne, David Stout an impressively strong Kurwenal, and Matthew Rose a deeply considered, resonant King Marke....
...Among the works getting their first recordings are Charlotte Sohy’s passionately heated Symphony in C sharp minor, the seductive salon music of Jeanne Danglas’s L’Amour s’éveille and La Sirène, a dramatic...
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