Hints and tips:
...A respectable cast is headed by Robert Murray, playing Belshazzar as a Nero-like maniac, eyes ablaze with crazed excess. Claire Booth sings his grieving mother Nitocris with a high-quality soprano....
..., Stefanie True’s sexually over-eager Poppea, Ashley Riches’ flummoxed Claudio and Christopher Ainslie’s outmanoeuvred Ottone. ★★★☆☆ More familiar fare is on offer 40 miles down the road at West Horsley...
...On Piccadilly a man sporting a white shirt and black bow tie is perched in the window of a Caffè Nero, soberly eating a bowl of tomato soup. It is midday....
...Deakin spotted orchids and the dianthus, which scatters itself at dry roadsides; the canary grass — he mused — must have grown around Nero’s fish pond, which predated the arena....
...Megalomania, sadism, incest and matricide: few historical mother-son relationships offer more salacious gossip than that of Agrippina and Nero....
...Gerry Ford, founder of Caffè Nero, was in attendance, having been bombarded by emails from attendees at the last event when the winning start-up YoYo asked to be put in touch....
...were pockets of brutality beyond the initial military conquests – for instance, it was said of Alonso Pacheco, who had a fondness for garrotting Pueblo Indians in the Yucatán with his own hands, that “Nero...
...Home-grown competitors are rising in important markets – for example Costa Coffee and Caffè Nero in Britain....
...Sir Christopher Wren was an MP. So was Sir Isaac Newton – and John Stuart Mill....
...A tenor Nero would always be my choice, and ENO has a candidate in Nicholas Watts, singing Lucano, the emperor’s poet-friend: his scene with Nero sounded like a love duet....
...For a company chairman who had his farewell lunch a month ago, Christopher Sporborg has a big serving of unfinished business to deal with before he leaves....
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