Hints and tips:
...Three plates of beautifully presented, jewel-like amuse-bouche are gently placed on our table: a slice of stone bass, a tartelette filled with smoked salmon and trout roe, and another impossibly delicate...
...At the Donmar, February brings Trouble in Butetown by Diana Nneka Atuona, a wartime story of an African-American GI who goes Awol from his barracks to take his chances in a world without segregation....
...She chooses a burrata salad, with no truffle dressing, followed by sea bass. I go for quinoa, followed by chickpea cassoulet. “I don’t drink at lunch. I never have,” she says....
...His blinders are surely on when the socialite Anne Bass tells Talley she had him investigated before sending her daughter to intern for him....
...Diana Ross is one of the few living major Motown figures not to be interviewed for the film — there is just one short clip — whereas from the musical you would have believed her story and Motown’s to be...
...A concert performance of Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda brought the soprano Diana Damrau to the German capital fresh from her role debut as the title character in Zurich last month....
...And then there was Diana Damrau’s conception of Elvira, whose madness (unlike that of Donizetti’s Lucia, which is the real thing) is triggered solely by doubts about her lover Arturo’s fidelity and ultimately...
...“Your job is to work out,” Barnes’s consort Anna Bass commanded. “To do exactly what we tell you.”...
...Eric Dolphy’s rippling unaccompanied reading on the 1963 Illinois Concert confirmed the bass clarinet as a jazz instrument....
...When the bass player drops out due to nervous exhaustion, there is genuine bafflement that such an ailment could exist in the annals of medicine....
...(A small musical sidestep finds soul singer Diana Ross playing Billie Holiday in the 1972 biopic Lady Sings The Blues.)...
...His pale face framed by wire-rimmed spectacles and a cropped fringe, Tsereteli has a young, studious air — an impression offset by his bass voice and calm, authoritative manner....
...The smooth bass Georg Zeppenfeld was a grounding force as the chaplain Raimondo, swallowed diction aside, the tenor Dean Power a slimy Normanno, Rachel Wilson a steadfast Alisa....
...Coogan opts for tuna tartare to start and then sea bass; I choose steak tartare followed by chicken Milanese....
...Superlative guitarist and frontman Nile Rodgers conducted, vocalists covered numbers he wrote for Diana Ross, David Bowie and Sister Sledge, and there was proper space for band members – they looked as disappointed...
...I know there was a day in 2008 when Jean-Claude Trichet ate a sea bass with his hands, but nowadays we eat as we have always done. I hope this has helped. From: Mark Carney, BoE....
...Ambrogio Maestri, more baritone than bass, was the physically and vocally rotund Doctor Dulcamara. www.metopera.org...
...soprano Diana Damrau....
...The melody opens, violin, bass, keyboards, then a voice, deep and calm, sharing words of imminent loss....
...Then sea bass baked in salt. I’ll order a bottle of Billecart-Salmon champagne and stick with that – no pudding....
...Edwards’ dynamic slap-bass was ably recreated by a stand-in player. Two keyboardists added a jazzy undertow to the stripped-down, funky rhythms Chic brought to disco....
...Diana Damrau, who ventured the flirtatious fioriture of the Countess Adèle, sings with sweetness that disguises brazen bravura and looks as beguiling as she sounds....
...There are star vocalists – Diana Kraal, Norah Jones and a rather good Renée Fleming – the occasional impeccable solo and changes of gear....
...As Ricci, bass Tian Haojiang has little musical competition except for giant projected faces singing in electronicised voices....
...The solo quartet was led by Christopher Purves, warm-hearted rather than momentous in the opening bass solo....
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