Hints and tips:
...My grooming guru is my barber, Alain Maître, at 8 Rue Saint-Claude in Paris. I don’t go to anyone else. I need to go to see him very soon to tend to my beard....
...“You can’t be a prima donna,” agrees Osgerby. “When you’ve known someone since you were 21 and you’ve worked with them forever, they are going to call you out.” Do they ever argue?...
...But it was the testimony of a Sicilian barber called Tommy Bellissima that clinched the private suspicions of Seneca Falls’ residents — in 1945, Bellissima gave Frank Capra a haircut....
...Zeffirelli’s other productions included Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra, which opened the new Metropolitan Opera in 1966, and Otello at La Scala in 1976, with Plácido Domingo and Carlos Kleiber....
...Lionel Barber Editor of the Financial Times Scott Anderson’s Lawrence in Arabia (Atlantic) is a gripping narrative featuring TE Lawrence, the adventurer, archaeologist, Arabist and spy whose exploits in...
...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....
...She was rejected by 12 houses but was offered Rosina, the young female lead in a 2002 Paris Opera production of Rossini’s Barber of Seville. It was the turning point....
...… Lucy Kellaway FT columnist Literary people can be snooty about Donna Tartt’s third novel, The Goldfinch (Abacus), yet this is a book written for the reader’s sheer pleasure....
...Tony Barber is the FT’s Europe editor …………………………………………………………….....
...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....
...Tony Barber ………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Lord Browne Former chief executive of BP and author of ‘Seven Elements that Have Changed the World’ (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) Donna Leon’s The Jewels...
...‘Prima Donna’, Sadler’s Wells, London, April 12-17, tel: 0844 412 4300; www.sadlerswells.com...
...Rufus Wainwright stumbled through “That’s Entertainment” as a prelude to a gooey excerpt from his faux-French opera, Prima Donna. Samuel Ramey wobbled through a scene from Susannah....
...The relay of Barber of Seville featured one of the most exciting casts I’ve seen....
...Bruno Praticò (pictured, right) is priceless as his mountainous wife Donna Rosalia, an iconic Italian mamma in drag....
...His subsequent ENO roles included Basilio in The Barber of Seville, Procida in The Sicilian Vespers and Baron Ochs in Der Rosenkavalier, one of his personal favourites....
...And part of what grown-ups want, in Barber’s view, is “freedom from grown-up responsibilities”. Children, on the other hand, want to be grown-up, as always....
...I recently picked up a Donna Karan suit from the local Salvation Army charity shop. In the 1970s I stayed with a friend in Islington....
..., Italy’s new prime minister, on Wednesday included two former premiers and one of Europe’s leading central bankers in his government, which he vowed would work as “a team and not a collection of prima donnas...
...Terfel returned, now nasty, as Scarpia in Act Two of good old Tosca, with Angela Gheorghiu flourishing her special brand of prima-donna glamour as the protagonist....
..."There were no prima donnas, no dissenting voices," Mr Prodi says. "We followed the mainstream and we worked together."...
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