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...The FT’s review of Mariame Clément’s production of Don Giovanni from this summer deemed it muddled. Rather than trying to find logic to it — who are these cheerleaders in pink tutus?...
...Venera Gimadieva (Donna Anna), Ruzan Mantashyan (Donna Elvira), Victoria Randem (Zerlina), and Jerzy Butryn (the Commendatore) all tended to employ overblown vibrato when putting any pressure on their voices...
...Donna Herdsman Director, Hewlett Packard 84. Lance Kawaguchi Managing director and global sector head resources and energy group, HSBC 85....
...“It’s all about the double L,” agrees Ignacio Ribeiro, of design duo Clements Ribeiro: “long and lean.”...
...Swans of the Kremlin : Ballet and Power in Soviet Russia, by Christina Ezrahi, Dance Books, RRP£19.99, 338 pages Clement Crisp, the FT’s dance critic, calls Ezrahi’s book a “fascinating study of how the...
...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...
...In an otherwise favourable review, the FT’s dance critic Clement Crisp lambasted “hobbledehoy choreographic experiments”. What does “hobbledehoy” mean?...
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