Hints and tips:
...Nevill taught Ossie Clark and Zandra Rhodes; he counted artist Sonia Delaunay as a collaborator, and Yves Saint Laurent and Cacharel were clients, buying his Liberty prints....
...Pilita Clark suggests that office smokers were the original networkers (September 24). I beg to differ....
...Norway’s Statoil is spending $500m a year on clean energy projects and expects to spend even more after 2020, says Irene Rummelhoff, head of the company’s “new energy solutions” unit....
...the composer’s top drawer, as becomes clear not just from the refined singing of Xavier Sabata in the Senesino title role, but also from Karina Gauvin’s exquisite Asteria and Ruxandra Donose’s graceful Irene...
...Marie Curie won two of them; her daughter Irène won another. Economics is another subject with a masculine reputation. It does not seem to be a happier hunting ground....
...Iréne Theorin radiated confidence, especially at the gleaming top of her voice....
...“We had Hurricane Irene last year and we have Hurricane Sandy this year, following quite a similar path,” he said, adding it was important to recognise Sandy was what is known as a hybrid storm....
...The following week, protesters marched through Cape Town against fracking in South Africa’s arid Karoo plateau – a plan being fought by another blue blood, local landowner Princess Irene of the Netherlands...
...Irene goes to stay in the Blue Bay when her mother becomes housekeeper to toymaker Lazarus Jann. A mystery filled with creepy automata and deadly secrets. Suzi Feay …………………………………………………………….....
...Renata Pokupic turns Irene into a full-size character, Vito Priante makes the most of Leone....
...Iréne Theorin’s radiant red-head has temperament, presence and a big voice, which sounded more imposing in the theatre than it does on DVD. Robert Dean Smith is vocally clean but emotionally inert....
...Iréne Theorin and Robert Dean Smith make a well-balanced couple – she all temperament and sound, he emotionally neutral but vocally flawless....
...One of the festival’s many merits is to restudy existing productions, sometimes with new casts, and it is the Swedish soprano Iréne Theorin, taking over the role of Isolde from her compatriot Nina Stemme...
...Then came her Irene in “Tamerlano” in November, with the same company. From Bizet to Handel, Johnston made the stylistic transition without missing a beat....
...The classiest performer is Jennifer Johnston: what a pity that, as Irene, she has little to sing, for this gorgeous mezzo has stage presence, a vibrant top, a sense of style....
...The classiest performer is Jennifer Johnston: what a pity that, as Irene, she has little to sing, for this gorgeous mezzo has stage presence, a vibrant top and a sense of style....
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