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...Chris Tynan, head of Blackstone’s real estate business in Australia, led the deal....
...The lowest, 13.5 per cent, was one of three Thistledown wines made by British Masters of Wine Giles Cooke and Fergal Tynan....
...Particularly poignant is Tracy Tynan’s account of an imaginary visit by her theatre-critic father Kenneth Tynan....
...In the title role Sarah Tynan captures the sophisticated society hostess to a tee and sings Partenope’s series of beautiful arias with perfect, cut-glass elegance....
...Philip Toynbee was chief book reviewer under Terence Kilmartin, widely seen as the prince of literary editors; Kenneth Tynan was recruited as theatre critic in 1954; Alan Ross wrote on both football and...
...There is a strong Rocco from James Creswell. Sarah Tynan and Adrian Dwyer match their climbing skills to their singing as Marzelline and Jaquino....
...James’s column was said to be worth an extra 10,000 on the Observer’s circulation, and he became as important to that newspaper as Kenneth Tynan had been as its theatre critic a generation earlier....
...The orchestra, conducted by James Holmes, delivers the score with delicacy and depth and the final ensemble rendition of “You’ll Never Walk Alone” is tremendously uplifting....
...Ann Taylor’s Cornelia sounds miscast, while James Laing’s waspish Ptolemy reveals the Achilles heel of so many countertenors: want of vocal charisma....
...And he quotes Kenneth Tynan, famous for F-words but obviously running out of D’s: “Distaste, disdain, revulsion …they are the nouns of England”....
...The lovelorn Nemorino, here a petrol pump attendant, could be a James Dean in the making, while the blonde bombshell running Adina’s Diner has the look of Marilyn Monroe and the voice of Dolly Parton....
...Matthew Rose sang the Evangelist and other bass roles with his finest, unforced eloquence and there was vivid support from a bevy of British all-rounders, including Sarah Tynan, Andrew Kennedy and James...
...You have to hand it to James MacMillan: he has mastered the formula of 19th-century grand opera....
...Kenneth Tynan, the brilliant but snobbish critic, claimed to have been “born” at Oxford University as an undergraduate, snubbing his real birthplace of Birmingham....
...Without Tynan, he would never have played Othello - he needed to be goaded into it - nor Shylock, nor James Tyrone in Long Day’s Journey Into Night, nor the Glaswegian trades unionist in Trevor Griffiths...
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