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...In 2008, Alan Bennett donated his archive to the Bodleian; here we see the way in which director Nicholas Hytner collaborated with Bennett first on the play The Madness of George III and later on the film...
...At the very end of the 18th century, Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin, had been appointed “ambassador extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of His Britannic Majesty to the Sublime Porte of Selim III...
...But after Prigozhin abandoned a march on Moscow in June, Russia’s first coup attempt in three decades, Wagner’s days were numbered....
...Wagner fallout: The Kremlin’s relatively lenient approach to Yevgeny Prigozhin reflects its weakness and has turned Russia “into a banana republic”, says one former official....
...His musical interests range from Wagner to Leonard Cohen to jazz. A polo player and huntsman, he is not known to enjoy watching mainstream sport....
...He offered them Wagner but gave them Offenbach. History’s verdict on Napoleon III serves also as a fitting epitaph for Boris Johnson....
...There is David Willson, who sold Tucker Caliban his land, and David’s son Dewey Willson III, who grew up with Tucker — though separated by the racial barrier....
...She was, in any case, more central than usual, and though Adel took some time to open up vocally, by Act III she fully dominated the proceedings....
...Radicalism, both musical and otherwise, haunted Wagner’s Tannhäuser (“Personal struggle! Morality!”)...
...Every big bank is now ahead of the minimum capital levels required by 2019 under the Basel III standards, notes Jason Goldberg, an analyst at Barclays....
...Combine that with his taste for Wagner and his exercise regime, and people might begin to get funny ideas about this most engaging man – with his enormous Twitter following....
...Laurence Olivier’s Richard III (1955), spurning or turning topsy-turvy the picture-book pageantry of his Henry V, is a designer maelstrom of evil....
...If Trelinski’s take jars with the first half of the opera, his talent starts to work powerful dramatic magic from Act III onwards as the music focuses on emotions rather than period charm....
...Mr Wagner says these industries may overlap slightly with the “pure” BYOD category but will most likely not include industries in the corporate liable category....
...On the night, I ended up adoring Wagner: when I heard Act III Scene 4, its incandescent heart-stopping beauty so overwhelmed me that I wept....
...After all, Baron Haussmann, the city planner of Emperor Napoleon III, created large avenues to avoid the repetition of previous revolutionary days in a naturally riotous Paris....
...The only theatre architect to address this problem was Wagner....
...AN Wilson is author of ‘The Victorians’ and of ‘Winnie and Wolf’, a historical fiction about Hitler and the Wagners ………………………………………….....
...Meanwhile his love life swirls around him like Richard III’s haunting crew at Bosworth, though Richard’s ghosts didn’t break into song....
...Stéphane Braunschweig’s Siegfried exhibits the same uneasy mix of assured acting and embarrassment at Wagner’s epic elements that characterised his Rheingold and Walküre ....
...It was there to mark the first time the International Wagner Congress had met in Switzerland but perhaps it raised expectations of conventional pageantry....
...“Give us the music, give us Wagner,” screamed the opposition....
...Top earners among sitting private-university presidents include Shirley Ann Jackson of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, who earned $1,208,148, and James Wagner of Emory University, who made $1,106,198...
...Esther Wagner, a local volunteer for the Thompson campaign, says she does not trust Mr Huckabee on economic issues and national security....
...At the opening of Götterdämmerung, the final opera in Wagner’s Ring, the three Norns sit on the Valkyrie rock weaving a golden rope....
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