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...Scott Wagner, Never Back Down’s new chair and third chief executive in two weeks, is a longtime DeSantis ally....
...The Pet Shop Boys sued him for libel; Harold Pinter was a close friend....
...His international opera work included staging Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle at Bayreuth on the centenary of the composer’s death....
...His directing career, which spanned more than 50 years, included both classic work and the world premieres of seminal new plays such as Betrayal, No Man’s Land and The Homecoming by Harold Pinter, and Peter...
...Wagner’s “the Rhine overflows its banks” takes some beating, as does Shakespeare’s “exit, pursued by a bear”....
...We are used to Wagner and Bayreuth, Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon. Now Beckett and Enniskillen....
...Some diarists chart the behind-the-scenes workings of the world stage, and the English diplomat and politician Harold Nicolson (1886-1968) was one of them....
...Cosima Wagner: The Lady of Bayreuth, by Oliver Hilmes, Yale RRP£25 Liszt’s daughter became not just Wagner’s second wife but high priestess of the Wagnerian cult, surviving the composer for nearly 50 years...
...He sought the advice of French composer-conductor Pierre Boulez, signed up with the Harold Holt agency and quickly began working with front-rank orchestras....
...Headline artists include Portuguese fado singer Mariza, Malian duo Amadou and Mariam, and Harold Lopez Nussa, a jazz pianist from Cuba....
...The Common Pursuit was first directed – like many of Gray’s plays – by Harold Pinter....
...But even such exemplary modernists as Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter can also be appreciated in terms of their classicism and their romanticism....
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