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...The pairing of Caitlin Lynch’s possibly over-parted Donna Anna and Allan Clayton’s lyrical Don Ottavio makes less impact. Mary Bevan and Nicholas Crawley are well cast as Zerlina and Masetto....
...It came with “Step by Step”, which, given a harder edge live, still shimmered and throbbed like a lost Donna Summer classic....
...Dapper as ever, he ambled out carefully to join an instrumental septet and his regular tag-team of singers, Donna Taylor, John Pagano and Josie James. Cue an immediate ovation....
...He argues that the consensus that teamwork trumps individualism often makes managers dump stars, when in fact his research suggests that in the best groups, team players co-exist with prima donnas....
...Then a trio of backing vocalists appeared for Pizzorno’s cover of “I Feel Love”, the Donna Summer disco classic, which added to the closing mayhem....
...Rufus Wainwright All Days are Nights: Songs for Lulu Polydor Consisting solely of piano and voice, Rufus Wainwright’s latest album is out a week before his opera, Prima Donna, receives its London premiere...
...Beth Clayton summoned pretty pathos as Vashti. George Manahan conducted with no-nonsense savoir so it faire, as always....
...Bassist and co-vocalist Mattie Safer, a ringer for nerdy actor Rick Moranis, camply declaims his Donna Summer impression....
...There could be no better tribute to the incomparable French soprano who died this year, Régine Crespin (right), than Prima Donna in Paris (Decca, 2CDs)....
...The Bavarian State Opera, sparing no expense to entertain its audience in Sir Peter Jonas’s last season at the helm, hired the detective fiction author Donna Leon (in her spare time a Handel fan) to write...
...Jordan, Jr., Senior Managing Director, Lazard Donna Karan, Founder and Chief Designer, Donna Karan International Jeffrey Katzenberg, Co-Founder, Principal and Producer, DreamWorks SKG William E....
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