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...April 4 to 7; further information and tickets here ‘Film Cycle: Deborah Stratman’, Jeu de Paume American artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman tackles notions of power and control, investigating the dynamics...
...March 30 to July 28; further information here Performance ‘Salome’, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Richard Strauss’s operatic adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play....
...American soprano Deborah Voigt had been booked to sing the title role in Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos at Covent Garden but was dropped because she did not fit into the production’s “little black dress”....
...Deborah Warner is the director and Gerry Cornelius the conductor....
...Instead, Norman felt drawn to French, German and Austrian music — to Schubert and Mahler, and to less obvious roles, including Poulenc’s Madame Lidoine, Strauss’s Ariadne, Wagner’s Sieglinde....
...Andrew Strauss, England cricket captain. Tim Brooke-Taylor, actor and writer. David Thackray, head of archaeology, National Trust....
...Strauss deserves – no, demands – more. Tel +1 212 875 5656...
...But was it worth recalling Deborah Voigt (pictured left) to sing the title role?...
...Barrow, Hanley Mewhinney & Strauss, a little-known institutional fund manager owned by Old Mutual, was the next biggest Bear investor, with 9.7 per cent of the company on December 31....
...UK firm Old Mutual bought United Asset Management in the US for $1.4bn in 2000, gaining six money management outfits in the process (including Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss)....
...Voight also took the measure of Strauss’s Four Last Songs guided by Tilson Thomas’s sweeping accompaniments, which kept sentimentality at bay....
...The sprawling programme began ponderously with Deborah Voigt singing five Lieder of Richard Strauss. The soprano seemed to be in rather strident voice....
...Deborah Voigt invested the title role with considerable dignity and power, though she neglected introspective dynamics and ran out of breath in the “Zweite Brautnacht”....
...Deborah Voigt will portray the glamorous heroine, with Diana Damrau, current coloratura in excelsis, as the sorceress Aithra and Torsten Kerl venturing the high-flying lines of Menelaus....
...And absolutely not Strauss or Offenbach!” Death in Venice, the only opera Britten wrote for Snape Maltings, will be Oïda’s first production to premiere in the UK, with Paul Daniel conducting....
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