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...The trailer for Back to Black, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, dropped earlier this week, with the actress Marisa Abela (best known from Industry) taking on the role of Camden’s own Maria Callas....
...Maria Callas never sang in Medea at the Metropolitan Opera, but — because of her interpretation in performances elsewhere, as well as famous recordings — her spirit is the omnipresent force behind the company...
...In a student demonstration, Maria Callas as Medea marches with Gina Lollobrigida as the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio....
...For a lively debate in the House of Commons, Winston Churchill could face Tony Blair, or David Lloyd George tussle with Margaret Thatcher. It just needs a leap of the imagination....
...Verdi’s Nabucco, in the Milan of 1842, gives us the voice of Maria Callas as Abigaille, in a rare (for this show) display of one of the great divas: they are not part of the story as it is told here....
...Last week George Callas, senior tax counsel to Mr Ryan, told a conference in Washington that an unfunded corporate tax cut would have to sunset after just two years to avoid adding to the deficit in year...
...Lilies on Red”, the inward-moving eddies of “Pool in the Woods, Lake George” — is really not to see them at all....
...The early morning fog floats away over the imposing Mount George, revealing Joe Chuang’s rows of Chardonnay vines running across the floor of Napa Valley....
...Her securely projected low-lying phrases obviate the need for a strident lower register à la Callas, and her voice sails to high D flat....
...Tiffany designer George Paulding Farnham closely observed specimens to create the series of botanically accurate enamelled orchids with which he won the gold medal at the 1899 World’s Fair in Paris....
...This was demonstrated by the construction of the Centre Georges Pompidou in the centre of Paris in 1977, a head-spinning architectural masterpiece by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano....
...as George VI and Helena Bonham Carter as Queen Elizabeth....
...Once able to attract singers such as Maria Callas, the 52-year-old Dallas Opera made its mark long before the upsurge in US regional opera. But it stood by while others bounded ahead....
...McDonald in the style of Callas’s apartment on the Avenue Georges-Mandel....
...She quotes Lloyd George to the effect that “you cannot jump across a chasm in two leaps” and I am so surprised by her choice of aphoristic model I forget to ask her apropos of what?...
...George Papaconstantinou A member of a northern Greek political family, George Papaconstantinou heads the opposition PanHellenic Socialist Movement’s list of candidates for the European parliament elections...
...Many renowned conductors – Claudio Abbado, Carlo Maria Giulini, Zubin Metha and Georges Prêtre – were gifted at conducting music as it was written....
...Small towns in the US sometimes have exotic names – Mitchell’s home state of Maine, for example, has a Calais (pronounced “Callas”) – so he assumed British ones could too....
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