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...I created an “I’m a Native New Yorker” Pandora playlist that, of course, includes Donna Summer. The thing I couldn’t do without is my glasses – and my imagination....
...Sarah (Shannon Hayes), now an accomplished young lady, her heritage squeezed out of her by corsets and customs, tries to educate her black serving girl (Donna Berlin) in matters of English etiquette and...
...Her insights into the interaction between power, politics and prima donnas at professional groups are relevant well beyond this often secretive world....
...The Marschallin serves as a much-publicised vehicle for the hopefully magnetic soprano Renée Fleming....
...“That was the largest audience in the world that I or any other performer could have,” says Renée Fleming. “The pressure was enormous....
...It served as a twilight vehicle for a glam veteran, Renée Fleming, en route to Broadway fame and, perhaps, fortune....
...Some of the finest prima donnas of recent times, including Kiri Te Kanawa, Felicity Lott and Renée Fleming, have made it their own....
...She was an understudy in a production of Handel’s Alcina starring Renée Fleming and Natalie Dessay....
...Verdi La traviata Renée Fleming (Opus Arte) The 2009 revival of the Royal Opera’s grandiose Richard Eyre staging was worth filming, partly for Antonio Pappano’s conducting and Joseph Calleja’s Alfredo...
...The Met production indulges Renée Fleming, who works hard to survive the obstacle course. She does so, barely....
...Making her belated entrance, Renée Fleming looked every inch the glamorous star opera singer, even if her choice of Tatyana’s Letter Scene from Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin was not obvious prima donna territory...
...The last time we did this, a few weeks back, we were basking in a heatwave, and 11,000 people crushed in to Trafalgar Square to see Renée Fleming as an outstanding Violetta in Traviata....
...Cast against type, Juan Diego Flórez turned “La donna e mobile” into a model of bel-canto finesse while modelling a diminutive version of a Caruso costume....
...The celebrity factor also went up, with Venus Williams and sister Serena, fresh from her US Open victory, Natalie Portman, Elijah Wood, Renée Zellweger, Winona Ryder, Victoria Beckham (in new pixie crop...
...The vaunted protagonist was Renée Fleming. Performing demanding chunks of three different operas, the prima-donna-du-jour modelled fancy costumes created by three fashionable fashion-designers....
...indefatigable and quick to show their enthusiasm: my first experience of the festival saw the final curtain at the Teatro Rossini ring down in the early hours of the morning, as a then unknown soprano, Renée...
...Donna Hayes, Mills & Boon’s chief executive, said India, with an estimated 300m readers of English, was a market of “staggering” potential for titles such as Virgin for the Billionaire’s Taking and Bedded...
...Specialist paint finisher Renee Kopal had a similar commission: to paint the dining room floor of an old Norfolk vicarage with what look like Italian tiles....
...Renée Fleming looked exquisite, pointed the text deftly, sounded radiant in moments of repose and exerted considerable brilliance in ascending climaxes....
...In addition, a lease has been signed for a new Beverly Hills store, and Kors’ wooing of the upper echelon of twenty-and-thirtysomething socialites, such as Aerin Lauder and Renee Rockefeller, shows no signs...
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