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...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...
...Bumbry enjoyed a 20th-century prima donna lifestyle. She owned a Silver Cloud Rolls-Royce and an orange Lamborghini, and once had her Covent Garden dressing-room redecorated....
...At the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Mayfair, central London, desks, telephone lines and computers are being set up in the church’s hall to create a clearing house to process the information of those needing...
...She had a stint “working with Donna in New York” (I quickly work out she is referring to Donna Karan), which Crawford calls “my Devil Wears Prada moment”....
...In 2012, protests over the removal of the Union Jack over Belfast’s City Hall turned violent, and he was arrested....
...After a Klobuchar rally in Nashua on Sunday afternoon, Donna Figler — an independent from Bedford — said while she was still undecided, Ms Klobuchar was on her shortlist....
...Laura Empson, the author of Leading Professionals: Power, Politics, and Prima Donnas, says: “If it is intellectually engaging or it’s fulfilling a sense of purpose and helping them feel worthwhile, then...
...A glass bell in the shared entrance hall brings them together. “Any time Viv comes in she rings the bell,” says Danielle. “If I’m the kitchen, I’ll shout, ‘Come in!’....
...Lily-Donna’s uplifting bike-ride into Garden Quad breaks off beside the door that leads me daily to my copy of the FT....
...Swinging wildly from one verdict to another, this is an honest and witty take on the “pram in the hall” dilemma....
...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...
...Works from Burri’s later, fibrous “Cellotex” series are also in Basel this week, through Luxembourg & Dayan gallery in the fair’s Unlimited hall....
...Relaxing on the steps outside the elegant marble halls of the courthouse, she enjoys a smoke and a sense of achievement....
...Standing in a driveway under the glare of the June sun, Donna McLeod, a local politician, is briefing one of the residents on the underbelly to the state’s electoral system....
...A few bars of an aria carry into the concert hall — “A former singer,” confides a one-time international conductor, sotto voce, “She generates noises, sometimes even pleasant ones.”...
...A mildly eccentric bike engineer called Takuya Kodama had handed me my bike outside the arrivals hall of Noto airport on the Noto Peninsula....
...CNN has parted ways with Donna Brazile, a former commentator, after hacked emails revealed she shared questions for the network’s Democratic debate with Hillary Clinton’s campaign....
...Myself, I have three references in mind: Greek Macedon, London’s Kings Road and the novelist Donna Tartt....
...wigmore-hall.org.uk...
...“Buying on audience has a huge benefit for the marketer,” said Donna Speciale, ad sales president at Turner, whose networks include CNN, TNT and TBS....
...Donna Brazile: the casualty The former campaign manager for Al Gore in 2000, Donna Brazile has been one of the hardest hit by the release of the hacked Podesta emails....
...She savours genuine prima donna manners and mannerisms. She strides upon the stage with equal parts grandeur and grandiosity....
...Diana Damrau dared to give an intimate recital on Sunday at Carnegie Hall, capacity 2,804. The soprano didn’t quite fill the house, but she came reasonably close....
...Her father Bruce transitioned into the Donna Karan-sheathed Caitlyn and stole every headline in the universe; her two-year-old niece North West became a street-style icon in Yeezy sweats and Balmain blazers...
...Cos, let me tell you Alan, this is the BBC, we don’t need any more prima donnas. We’re well stocked in that department. You’ve gone from plain Alan to Sir Alan to Lord Sugar. What’s next?...
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