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...Salonen presided over a handsomely balanced performance of the Beethoven that had an appealing modern flare and sounded vibrant in the renovated David Geffen Hall’s new acoustic....
...Director David McVicar ensures that onstage applause for the pianist coincides with Fedora’s manifest satisfaction with her questioning....
.... ★★☆☆☆ David Lang’s Note to a Friend, another world premiere, looks promising later in the week. To January 15, prototypefestival.org...
...Opera aficionados will be disappointed that David McVicar’s production of Don Carlo, new in February, comes back shorn of its idyllic first act depicting the Spanish infante and his designated bride, Elisabeth...
...Overall, though, one cannot escape the sense of witnessing a historical relic, a feeling reinforced by David McVicar’s opulent but inert production characterised by primitive, stone-like sets (designed by...
...Jana McIntyre dispatches Aminta’s many high notes with aplomb and David Portillo brings lyrical ardour to Henry’s music....
...It doesn’t help that David McVicar’s production is inordinately grim. He regards, not without reason, the Spain of Philip II and the Grand Inquisitor as an empire ruled by death....
...“Our inflation expectations are going up and growth expectations are going down,” said Elaine Stokes, a portfolio manager at Loomis Sayles....
...Fuss’s comments were echoed by Goldman Sachs chief executive David Solomon earlier this week, with the former junk bond banker also warning that markets were vulnerable to a setback....
...“That’s healthy,” says Andrea DiCenso, a portfolio manager at Loomis Sayles. “I’m not sure it’s necessarily fun.”...
...Brent crude was bumped down about 2 per cent by some of Monday’s tumult, but David Martin, commodities strategy head at BNP Paribas, offered this bullish read: The outperformance of Brent against other...
...When David McVicar’s updated production of Handel’s Agrippina appeared at Brussels’s La Monnaie 20 years ago, reviews likened the opera’s Roman elite to Margaret Thatcher and the Clintons....
...Additional reporting by Stephen Morris in London and David Keohane in Paris...
...Smaller groups operated with “razor-thin profit margins” even before the pandemic, according to Craig Burelle, an analyst at asset manager Loomis Sayles....
The orchestra welcomed in the Year of the Pig with a Chinese-dominated programme at New York’s David Geffen Hall
...David McVicar’s production of Adriana Lecouvreur, seen first at the Royal Opera House in London in 2010 and subsequently in Vienna, Paris and Barcelona, has only now reached the Metropolitan....
Hungary’s state company is touring the country’s ‘national opera’
...Elaine Stokes, a Boston-based portfolio manager with Loomis Sayles, said she did not pay much attention to social media feeds a few years ago....
...The libretto by David Henry Hwang (writer of M. Butterfly) interleaves scenes of the sergeant’s court marshal with scenes of Chen’s military experience....
...Read the full story from Murad Ahmed and David Keohane here. For further reading check out this New Yorker investigation into How Football Leaks Is Exposing Corruption in European Soccer....
...It’s miles apart from the Royal Opera House’s recent production by David Alden, set in a modern Middle Eastern dictatorship....
...Many a Tosca is likely to do battle with the sexual predator Baron Scarpia during the life of David McVicar’s built-to-last production of the Puccini opera, introduced in December, but Anna Netrebko, who...
...We’ve seen high-tech productions of Der Ring des Nibelungen, but last season David Pountney took a contrarian approach by launching the Wagner cycle, his first, with a Das Rheingold produced as if by an...
...The production, persuasively directed by Peers, relies on colourful projections (by David Jonathan Palmer) on gauzy curtains....
...Following the Metropolitan Opera’s Tristan just days before, Lyric Opera of Chicago also opened its season with a work by Wagner, the initial instalment of a projected Ring cycle by David Pountney....
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