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...For opera fans in attendance, 24-year-old Bumbry’s performance as Venus in Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the 1961 Bayreuth Festival marked the moment a star was born....
...“Photographing Alek in Brooklyn was a joyful and powerful experience,” says the documentary-style photographer Andre D Wagner, who shot this cover story....
...“Prima-donna attitudes of the various constituencies are a tragedy,” said Ms Gazzini. andrew.england@ft.com...
...There is just enough contrast between Malin Byström’s assertive Donna Anna and the Donna Elvira of Myrto Papatanasiu with her Greek tragedy queen gestures....
...Although hardly girlish, she worked through Everding’s hand-me-down prima donna routines with aplomb. In context, unfortunately, it wasn’t enough....
...US author Donna Tartt’s 784-page novel The Goldfinch is perhaps the most notable omission....
...Tales of Jessye Norman’s prima donna behaviour are the stuff of legend....
...Like Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, this is a novel of a lost boy in a world of difficult adults....
...For more ‘All the Best’ round-ups from Andrew Clark: Delius La traviata Handel’s Messiah Mahler symphonies Lutoslawski Sergiu Celibidache Wagner’s Ring Carlos Kleiber Goldberg Variations Ravel’...
...The Goldfinch , by Donna Tartt, Little, Brown, RRP£20/$30 Tartt’s last book was published in 2002, so a new novel is an event....
...On September 24, both the Royal Opera in London and the Metropolitan Opera in New York will open their 2012/2013 seasons – the Royal Opera with Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, the Met with Donizetti’s...
...The young Tony Hall was introduced to opera by playing a 78 recording of “bits of” Wagner’s Tannhäuser on a wind-up gramophone belonging to his grandmother....
...It is one of Wagner’s lighter soprano parts but it thrives on a singer of temperament and often serves as a door-opener to the heavier Wagner-Strauss repertoire....
...We have had eight films and more hours and mortalities than Wagner’s Ring. The entire British acting community has had an extended fancy dress season....
...Gheorghiu is known as a prima donna of the classic mould: her no-shows are sometimes as famous as her performances....
...The sheer length of Sutherland’s career as a prima donna was a tribute to the quality of her training and technique, as well as her down-to-earth personality and stamina....
...Glyndebourne Festival 2011 opens with a new production of Wagner’s ‘Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg’ on May 21....
...Kyle Ketelsen is Leporello and Kristine Opolais is Donna Elvira. Louis Langrée conducts the Freiburger Barockorchester....
...Cast against type, Juan Diego Flórez turned “La donna e mobile” into a model of bel-canto finesse while modelling a diminutive version of a Caruso costume....
...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....
...Also RIM board director Katherine Tsang, Standard Chartered Bank China chairmanSince July 2009, previously SCB China CEO from 2005 Sue Wagner, BlackRock, COO...
...Wagner did it for the sleepy Bavarian town of Bayreuth in the 19th century; Mozart and Strauss did it for Salzburg in the early years of the 20th century; and, in recent decades, Rossini has done it for...
...Eva in Wagner’s Meistersinger, which she has sung at Covent Garden, is “a spoilt little girl. I don’t like her”, whereas Tatiana (Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin) “grows with each act....
...Within seven years she was singing Fricka at the Bayreuth festival, the Wagner mecca to which she has returned every summer since....
...At English National Opera, would-be prima donnas can roll up to view a singing lesson and the Opéra national de Bordeaux is going one better with an open invitation to perform in full costume and make-up...
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