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...The Komische Oper’s new chief conductor James Gaffigan keeps a steady hand on Rimsky-Korsakov’s odd, awkward score, which ranges from harsh shrieking and brutal parody to lush orientalism....
...All of the men are well-cast, from Franz Xaver Schlecht’s wily James Stewart and Rupert Charlesworth’s feckless Darnley to Sejong Chang’s likeable Riccio. The chorus, too, is impressive....
...In 1982, Spelman gave him an honorary degree alongside Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to be elected to Congress....
...She was joined in oblivion by Shirley Jaffe, whose untitled 1954 canvas looks like a city seen through a break in the clouds by a myopic bird....
...Which writer and feminist was the mother of the politician Shirley Williams? Which American won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964? In heraldry, what Latin word means the right-hand side of a shield?...
...It’s more like a martial version of The Martian, however, with Shirley elevating his tale through scientific rigour and a well-researched understanding of life in the armed forces....
...Gennady Bezzubenkov’s sonorous bass as Old Major, James Kryshak’s squeaky-toy Squealer and Germán Olvera’s dignified Boxer all evolve as characters as the opera develops, while Misha Kiria’s Napoleon holds...
...And use previous papers as a guide: I’m really looking forward to seeing Stephanie Shirley in person having enjoyed her wonderful Lunch with the FT....
...London On Tuesday this week, Dame Shirley Bassey — the only singer to record three James Bond theme songs — will take to the stage of the Royal Albert Hall for a special concert marking the 60th anniversary...
...I love the shoot she’s done with James Brodribb and Jasmine Hassett. She recalls the ’80s model Bonnie Berman, a former Vogue cover star and muse to Patrick Demarchelier....
...Shirley Jackson’s gothic masterpiece The Haunting of Hill House (£44.95), first published in 1959, is widely acknowledged as one of the all-time great ghost stories....
...Meanwhile, in a chapter entitled “Worrying Verdicts”, she speaks of Michael Shirley, who spent 16 years in prison for a murder he always maintained he didn’t commit....
...Dazzling when it first opened in 2019, it now returns to the West End (before travelling to Glasgow and New York) in blistering form, led by a phenomenal performance from James McAvoy....
...Andrew Shirley, head of rural research at Knight Frank, believes it remains possible to maintain a reasonable level of food security alongside initiatives to improve farming sustainability, biodiversity...
...Round on the Links The link was Desert Island Discs Young Vic Laverne and Shirley Blood on the Tracks Parkinson’s Bible belt Shakespeare and Company Cast Away Rhode Island The Book of Mormon Luxury...
...His springboard is a quote from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake....
...Shirley Williams, who has died at the age of 90, was the matriarch of liberal politics at Westminster....
...In 2013, he guest-starred in Downton Abbey, playing a cash-strapped lord opposite Shirley MacLaine. “Shirley bloody MacLaine! One of the greatest screen actresses ever!...
...I will say I’m not thrilled or really pleased,” she said in an office decorated with images of trailblazing black women including Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to Congress, and Marxist...
...“I’m unbought and unbossed,” she said, borrowing a line from Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman elected to the US Congress and a personal hero....
...What’s the abbreviation for the Oxford degree in which David Cameron, Ed Miliband, Shirley Williams and Stephanie Flanders all graduated?...
...According to her first album, Shirley Bassey was Born to Sing the Blues. Released in 1957, when she was 20, her debut’s title proved misleading....
...Meanwhile Shirley Hughes’s Dogger’s Christmas (Puffin £12.99) revisits her 1977 classic Dogger, with a yuletide twist....
...A companion piece to the recent The Haunting of Hill House, in which Mike Flanagan adapted and updated Shirley Jackson’s horror novel of the same name, Flanagan’s Netflix series faces stiff competition from...
...) George V (Edward VIII and George VI) Christopher Robin Milne (son of AA Milne) Loving and giving Five (at home) The Diary of Anne Frank/The Diary of a Young Girl Emma Ophelia Wayne and Coleen Rooney James...
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