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...Letter in response to this obituary: Don’t forget the conductor who championed Bumbry / From Harvey Clark Greisman, Wilmington, DE, US...
...“People are waiting to see what happens at these sales,” says the Manhattan dealer Emmanuel Di Donna, who was showing at Tefaf New York (May 6-10)....
...Andrew Clark...
...From Oscar Wilde’s cape to Donna Tartt’s androgynous suits, Newman shows how a strong look can cultivate a literary legend....
...in an engaging new book Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore by Terry Newman, in which she aims to “tie the heavyweight value of, say, Samuel Beckett, with a discussion of the fact that he wore Clarks...
...“We ran out of water in June,” says Donna Johnson, a 72-year-old retired counsellor who delivers water to dozens of dry households from the back of her pick-up truck....
...The John Bates Clark medal, a prestigious award for economists under the age of 40, was exclusively male until Susan Athey won in 2007, but two other women have won the award since then....
...Some of the finest prima donnas of recent times, including Kiri Te Kanawa, Felicity Lott and Renée Fleming, have made it their own....
...even sings a note, Feola wins my vote: she has a pleasing presence, unfussy in a damsel-like way, with enough self-confidence to hold the stage on her own – without a score – while steering clear of prima donna...
...For more ‘All the Best’ round-ups from Andrew Clark: Delius La traviata Handel’s Messiah Mahler symphonies Lutoslawski Sergiu Celibidache Wagner’s Ring Carlos Kleiber Goldberg Variations Ravel’...
...He opens with a leaden “La donna è mobile” (Rigoletto) that reveals more heroic strain than Italianate style....
...There is an awful lot of empty vocal display in La donna del lago. You don’t go to see the opera’s tartan veneer, you go to hear singers negotiating a melodic line groaning with decorations....
...Yet he already works as a parliamentary assistant to Derek Clark, a current MEP....
...Additional reporting by Pilita Clark and Guy Chazan...
...This volume tells of a grand operatic melodrama, though played out as often by general managers and unions as by prima donnas. Too breathless, but even-handed in its judgments....
...Giovanni and Leporello resemble a duo of music hall entertainers, Donna Anna and Don Ottavio a pair of Victorian waxwork models. The peasants are 1950s dolls and spivs....
...The Goldfinch , by Donna Tartt, Little, Brown, RRP£20/$30 Tartt’s last book was published in 2002, so a new novel is an event....
...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....
...Andrew Clark ——————————————- POP Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music....
...Donna Anna likes kinky sex. Masetto beats up his fiancée. Don Ottavio prefers the computer screen to a private life. Another cheap operatic update?...
...Noah Stewart’s Hassan and Jacques Imbrailo’s Simon make the most of their lyrical opportunities, and Anne-Marie Owens contributes a doughty Donna....
...Barbara Frittoli’s Donna Elvira, a thoroughly mixed-up modern Ms, sounded under-projected....
...The coming year finds her returning to the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro at the Paris Opéra and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, but there is the prospect of another encounter...
...Gheorghiu is known as a prima donna of the classic mould: her no-shows are sometimes as famous as her performances....
...Andrew Clark …………………………………………………………….. POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
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