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...Jack was sickly as a child, resented by his mother for his seeming weakness, outshone by his glamorous older sister, Evelyn....
...His mother Evelyn and his father Percy fled to California after the second world war; in the army, Percy had been told he could be equal to the white man — but when he came home he discovered the lie....
...Each novel is only about 200 pages, and Powell has a light funny style similar to his contemporary Evelyn Waugh, so it’s not a deep dive....
...Wagner’s Lohengrin is a long sit, and most people don’t spend a good chunk of money for nearly five hours of contemplating a knight and his waterbird....
...Photo Michael Regan/Getty Images May 11: President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil, with Jaques Wagner, her chief of staff, survey the view from Planalto Palace in Brasília....
...Although she grew vocally wild towards the end, Evelyn Herlitzius was a no less impressive Isolde, in whom the music seems to well up through every sinew....
...With the faintest Indian accent and the odd stutter, Shaw speaks with the arch, self-mocking precision of Evelyn Waugh’s Anthony Blanche — until he laughs, when a shrieking hyena yell convulses his entire...
...Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet, by Gernot Wagner and Martin Weitzman, Princeton University Press, RRP£19.95/$27.95 We insure our lives against an uncertain future; so why not...
...If it has to be Barenboim, it may as well be Wagner. www.teatroallascala.org...
...Annette Dasch’s Elsa was too sterile for my taste but made an effective foil for Evelyn Herlitzius’ squally, histrionically riveting Ortrud....
...Long before Wagner coined the term, opera producers had dreamt of creating the complete work, the ultimate art, a Gesamtkunstwerk....
...Manchester-educated John Tomlinson sang arias by Verdi, Wagner and Gounod; Polina Leschenko, a nimble-fingered young Russian pianist, played Weber’s Konzertstück....
...The Australian stage director Barrie Kosky here continues his exploration of Wagner’s operas....
...In this brisk, electrifying reading, it is astonishing how much foreshadowed Wagner can be heard....
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