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...Set against a backdrop that is part Poussini, part American landscape, the loving couple are sung by Danielle de Niese, decked out in peroxide pigtails, and Charles Workman....
...Charles Workman fights a losing battle against Tammu’s endless strings of high notes, while Andrew Watts delivers the opening and closing monologues of the Scorpion as athletic tours-de-force....
...Charles Castronovo is somewhat overshadowed as the dastardly Jason, but delivers a solid performance; Elsa Dreisig, Sarah Aristidou and Corinna Scheurle bring welcome notes of vocal clarity as unhappy bride...
...The foundation stone has just been laid for a vast new building to recreate the old Berliner Schloss – the Prussian royal palace – on Unter den Linden....
...I got that wrong, but living in Berlin when Germany reunified (I spent the night of reunification, October 3 1990, walking up and down the Unter den Linden avenue, marvelling at the lack of celebrations)...
...In the title role, Charles Castronovo scales stratospheric heights with no appearance of effort. His is a young, virile Faust, all cascades of seductive sound and articulate passion....
...His parents moved to East New York, now a bleak and run-down area of Brooklyn, and lived in the Linden Houses, a public housing project....
...Chelsea has been in demand since Henry Vlll built a palace there in 1536 and Charles II constructed his private Kings Road from St James’s Palace to Fulham....
...In 1841, the British journalist Charles Mackay enjoyed quite a hit with his book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds, a history of popular folly that debunked everything from witch-hunts...
...“The rectory dates back maybe 400 years but it had a Victorian makeover,” says Charles Lawson of selling agent Jackson Stops in Exeter....
...The late-Victorian, 57-acre site was bought from the MoD by Linden Homes for £8.9m and before work began local people were asked what they wanted the new “urban village” to look like....
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