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...The forest belongs in the German Romantic tradition of Caspar David Friedrich, rather than conjuring a world of Disneyesque enchantment....
...Bars were teeming with locals and tourists sipping Guinness to live music, while the Irish National Opera was performing Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel, at the nearby Abbey Theatre....
...Nicholas Lester is a sturdy Marcello, Bozidar Smiljanic a buoyant Schaunard, and David Soar a Colline who sings his short aria with due gravity....
...David Bradford of Stanford Graduate School of Business and an authority on organisational behaviour, points out there is a particular problem in California’s high-technology sector, where so many companies...
...David McVicar’s star-crossed new Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera is neither as bad as some have complained nor as good as it may become....
...This Hänsel und Gretel is a fairy-tale-in-progress, with singers in street clothes presenting the story of an unfinished opera production....
...This may explain why Wednesday’s media call with new chief executive David Wood appeared to be channelling Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and a low-sugar version of Hansel and Gretel....
...Incredibly, Leoncavallo’s deadly-veristic orgy shared the stage with Humperdinck’s let’s-pretend kiddie-show, Hänsel und Gretel, nearly 100 times between 1906 and 1938....
...In the past David Pountney has been at his imaginative best in operas based on myth or folklore....
...As fashion stunts go, getting Derek Zoolander to walk the finale alongside his fictional male compadre, Hansel, was quite the coup de théâtre....
...Gender-bending did not enter western consciousness with the advent of David Bowie and Iggy Pop. The phenomenon began at least as far back as Plato....
...by Hurvin Anderson (sold by Thomas Dane in the fair’s first half hour for £140,000), a Jules de Balincourt cityscape (Victoria Miro), Chris Ofili’s monumental black figures playing out classical myth (David...
...The Frog Prince is sodomising an apprentice, while Hansel and Gretel get up to no good....
...Our head of department (my boss) landed a role as an extra, listening to David Lurie (John Malkovich) as he pronounces on Wordsworth’s Prelude (while really ogling his student Melanie)....
...David Harradine’s production weaves in little references to seasonal shows: the silk thread reminds us of Hansel and Gretel’s improvised paths home....
...It will be headed by Bryan Hansel, who “has a track record of bringing new technologies to market in North America”....
...Remember Hansel and Gretel?...
...Aside from Poppea this summer’s hot tickets are Eugene Onegin and Carmen, but no one should feel short-changed by Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel in Laurent Pelly’s new staging, or Albert Herring, one of...
...As created by James Robinson, refreshed by David Grabarkewitz, designed by John Conklin and dressed by Anna Oliver, this is a fairy tale minus fairies....
...‘Hansel and Gretel’, Arches, Glasgow. Tel +44 870 240 7528...
...Wexford Festival’s artistic director, David Agler, is developing a new strand of programming with a focus on American opera, a genre widely disregarded in Europe, and himself conducted this revival of Conrad...
...It reminds me that the first play I ever saw, as a schoolboy, in the old Other Place in Stratford, was David Rudkin’s version of Hansel and Gretel. Tel +44 870 609 1110....
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