Hints and tips:
...Colville designers Lucinda Chambers and Molly Molloy trawl through local charity shops for old puffers and ‘80s ski suits needed to make their quilted coats and colourful patchwork bags....
...Hence Mr Romney’s ideas, which go beyond the usual payroll tax cuts and business loan guarantees of a chamber-of-commerce Republican....
...Glover tells his story with easy scholarship, placing Handel in the midst of the city’s turbulent social life, beset by aristocratic factions and temperamental prima donnas....
...ecclesiastical Baroque gossip which, despite never having been proven entirely factual, has equally never been entirely dismissed as false — this was also the love nest of Innocent and his purported mistress, Donna...
...Nina (identified as La Donna, the woman) seduces Pedro (L’uomo), the last surviving member of a gang that murdered her father and brother. It is a revenge without blood....
...Jeremy Bentham, the utilitarian philosopher, developed the idea of the panopticon, a circular prison with an inspection chamber at its heart....
...There is something of the prima donna, not to say the national traitor, in the act of abstention, as though the country was only ever worth a damn as long as it voted for Europe....
...Robert Spano valiantly conducted the chamber orchestra calling itself The Knights....
...“The bigger you get, the more of a target you become,” says Alan Bates, a barrister at London’s Monckton Chambers....
...Friday celebrated millinery designers with Headonism, an industry-only installation at Somerset House showcasing the latest looks from up and coming names including Piers Atkinson, Emma Yeo and William Chambers...
...His return to the Philharmonic in 1992 to conduct Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony was a one-off, bringing together two prima donnas for the sake of propriety and reconciliation....
...There was no room for any music from Prima Donna, his opera about a day in the life of an ageing opera singer....
...Concert versions, though cheaper to promote, are equally rare, so this Don Giovanni, given just a couple of performances by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, was eagerly seized upon – not least because the...
...Alejandro Larraga Schleske sounds warm but monochrome in the title role, Ekaterina Kudryavtseva might one day make a fine Donna Anna....
...Gheorghiu is known as a prima donna of the classic mould: her no-shows are sometimes as famous as her performances....
...She is no prima donna but neither does she merely accompany. She hands the stage to her colleagues but everyone knows it is because of her that they are there....
...“Design is a step behind the fashion industry,” Wallpaper* magazine’s editor-in-chief, Tony Chambers, says....
...Victoria Clark luxuriated in seconda-donna raunch as his Duchess (a role apparently destroyed in the original production by Lotte Lenya)....
...Marthe Keller’s stark modern staging – in which the arch-sinner plummets to hell in a mirror-lined elevator – returns to the Met on Monday night, with Peter Mattei in the title role and Barbara Frittoli as Donna...
...There is a series of chamber concerts of music by Bach, performed in a new space designed by architect Zaha Hadid; Prima Donna, an opera composed by Canadian singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright; and Everybody...
...De Niro plays a Hollywood producer who has to juggle the demands of ex-wives, growing daughter, fierce studio head, prima donna director and stroppy actor....
...The Russian Chamber Chorus of New York tried valiantly to seem professional. Adrian Daunov contributed decent decoration on the cello....
...You could have left the Usher Hall after Nicholas McGegan’s performance with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus, without feeling even slightly short-changed....
...An antiques dealer and interior designer who has worked on personal collections for the likes of Donna Karan, Anthony Hopkins, Rod Stewart and Michael Caine and on shop interiors for names such as Baccarat...
...Their Mozart K.575 is intimate, fluently argued and intelligently nuanced – the very soul of chamber music....
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