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...When the erstwhile Salzburg Festival director Gerard Mortier, at the time indendant in Madrid, brought together director Peter Sellars and conductor Teodor Currentzis to tackle Henry Purcell’s unfinished...
...His impressive appearance as soloist in Henry Walford Davies’ Confortare was all too brief, not least because he looked as if he was genuinely enjoying himself....
...Expect an evening of the most-loved arias performed by a stellar ensemble....
...Strouse’s songs draw on a rich mix of period music, shifting from ragtime to klezmer (a small onstage band mingles with the action) to an operatic Italian aria belted out by the dishy activist (Alex Gibson-Giorgio...
...Miguel Arias Cañete, the EU commissioner for energy, speaks to the FT. Barnier for president?...
...Cue arias of angst, trios of outrage, and reams of predictable Rossini rum-ti-tum, several chunks of it borrowed from his other operas....
...Imagine running a Punch and Judy show and trying to sing an aria at the same time. Caitlin Hulcup did well to deliver such an expressive Dido’s lament while guiding her puppet to a dignified end....
...Moscow bureau chief Henry Foy also contributed...
...Some operas, such as Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi, seem like vehicles for a single aria....
...It also has some memorable arias. David Henry Hwang’s 1988 play M Butterfly dispenses with the racism and updates the sexual politics. But the story is just as silly as the opera....
...Who has ever heard Henry Février’s intoxicating Gismonda (1919) or Louis Niedermeyer’s haunted Stradella (1837)?...
...Much of the effectiveness of the harmony between libretto and score stems from Ignatius’s skilful use of actual words used by the historical figures, heard to perfection in the closing aria when Machiavelli...
...“There would be these occasions and she would do these arias from great operas, light operas or whatever. She was celebrated.”...
...Dybek is well respected in his native US, where he has won the O Henry Award and a MacArthur Fellowship....
...José Ramón Arias, an opposition legislator in Maracay, feels hunger is double-edged: “There is looting everyday here, but the capacity for mobilising people has diminished....
...Additional reporting by Alex Barker in Brussels and Henry Foy in Warsaw...
...But too much of the rest suffers from opera’s perennial problem of moving slowly and unsubtly, from the March Hare’s aria about Time to the heavy-handed “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” ensemble....
...Andy Dwan and Johnathan McCullough were strong as Hallward and Lord Henry....
...We caught, by chance, a performance of Handel’s Messiah whose highlight was Michael Chance’s heartbreakingly eloquent rendition of the aria “He was despised”....
...Alpine arias Salzburg Summer Festival expects to see more than 260,000 visitors for opera, concerts and theatre productions....
...Owen’s crucial Peace aria has little impact, even though a ready-made platform is available....
...Bird-like Biaggio (Moisés Arias), weird and a little antic, joins them for tragicomic relief. Young people making their first feature are like earthlings landing on a new planet....
...Wickham’s audacity cut short the aria. The seeds were transported to Britain’s colony of Malaya, and nurtured by Henry “Rubber” Ridley in the botanical gardens in Singapore....
...Henry James and EM Forster used to be the main tour agents for this stuff, Merchant Ivory their couriers. But the genre has diversified....
...Speaking from New York, where she is working on a production of Chinglish, the new play by M Butterfly creator David Henry Hwang, Chong was at a loss to explain what might have triggered the cancellation...
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