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...The gift in question was a person: Sarah Bonetta Davies, a young African princess adopted as goddaughter by Queen Victoria....
...Davies describes the unpredictability of this way of working as miserable. “It’s beyond happiness. I can’t see any happiness at the moment....
...Setting up a business at 42 put Mr Davies in good company....
...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....
...He said Lord Hall “has experience of dealing with prima donnas at the Royal Opera House which has about as many as the BBC does”. Additional reporting by Robert Cookson and Hannah Kuchler...
...Giorgio Cozzolino, the amiable restaurant manager, greets Davies like an old friend. The historian confides to me later that, until today, he has never eaten at Donna Marzia in his life....
...This effect is not really discounted in the market,” says William Davies, head of global equities at Threadneedle....
...Davies, director of Sofa....
...Selections by Edwin Heathcote … CLASSICAL The Show Must Go On: On Tour with the LSO in 1912 and 2012, by Gareth Davies, Elliott & Thompson, RRP£14.99/$24.95 Davies, principal flute of the London Symphony...
...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...
...On screen, it’s like watching a 90-minute rematch between The Caretaker’s Davies and Aston: logorrheic hobo versus laconic head-case....
...The Canadian-American pop star, whose opera, Prima Donna, scored some success in Manchester last year, now seems determined to invade the serious concert platform, to be accepted not as a celebrity crossover...
...Jonathan Mills, the new director of the Edinburgh International Festival, chose Prima la musica, poi le parole, Salieri’s one-act satire about prima donnas, poets and composers....
...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 last thing we want is any prima donnas. I’ve never understood the whole pigeon-breasted attitude.”...
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