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...Decor is traditional with eclectic furnishings combining Neoclassical, Art Deco and modern elements, hung with prints by the likes of Joan Miró and Le Corbusier....
...She recalls a hipster Joan Didion, hair parted dead-centre in two long curtains, a scrunchie on her wrist....
...Wagner certainly knew how to thunder and rage....
...The cast for the opera’s premiere at the Royal Opera House included Joan Sutherland, no less....
...“Your Wagner fan doesn’t necessarily go to your Iron Maiden programme, and vice versa. But if you can create a community around a passion point, then you can get people to participate.”...
...Paeans to its loveliness have flowed from the pens of Mary Shelley and Stendhal; it has inspired Liszt and Wagner; Verdi wrote La traviata on its shores....
...The young Magee nursed these preoccupations in a bedroom he shared with his sister, Joan, three years his senior, in a flat above a shop in Hoxton, east London, where he was born in 1930....
...On the Face of the Deep by Harvard professor Chaya Czernowin evokes a windswept desert through wispy string textures, while the whispering tones in Marines i boscatges by the young Spanish composer Joan...
...The Book of Joan , by Lidia Yuknavitch, Canongate, RRP£14.99/Harper, RRP$26.99, 266 pages Erica Wagner is author of ‘Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built Brooklyn Bridge’ (Bloomsbury) Join our online book...
...Joan Baez recalls playing in besieged Sarajevo. BB King gives his last major interview to Vulliamy in 2012, sitting under a pecan tree in Indianola, the bluesman’s Mississippi hometown....
...It is a collaboration with artist Rosemary Clunie, whose work recalls that of Joan Miró or Quentin Blake, depending on your mood and inclination....
...Joan Bakewell: ‘Stop the Clocks: Thoughts on What I Leave Behind’ Friday April 8, 4pm, Museum of Natural History, £12 Broadcaster, journalist and writer Dame Joan Bakewell reflects on her life as one of...
...And of course one of my favourite musicians, Joan Baez. If you could pack only one thing, what would it be? A bicycle. Or the cat, El Gato....
...The ENO is a showcase for local talent and theatrical innovation, with the current hit run of Richard Jones’s production of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg just the latest example in a long string...
...This month alone has already seen significant London openings of plays written by actors Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag), Louise Brealey (Pope Joan) and Simon Callow (Inside Wagner’s Head, which admittedly...
...This year has seen a plethora of centennials – Wagner, Britten, Verdi, The Rite of Spring, Duchamp’s urinal – and commemorating always veers dangerously close to celebrating....
...The healthiest Violetta in terms of technical accomplishment is Joan Sutherland: few singers make the Act One coloratura sound so easy....
...Joan of Arc is “flaming” in her head beside “naughty pyromaniac children”, “witches at the stake”, global warming and the Catherine wheel....
...Friedelind Wagner: Richard Wagner’s Rebellious Granddaughter, by Eva Rieger, translated by Chris Walton, Boydell Press, RRP£30 While her brothers Wieland and Wolfgang served the Nazis and hoarded the “gold...
...The term “overnight success” was rarely more appropriate than on 17 February 1959, when Joan Sutherland made her debut as Lucia di Lammermoor in Donizetti’s opera....
...Carlos Wagner’s staging, designed by Conor Murphy, is fluent, witty and grandly salacious....
...Wagner left UA after only a short time and Cruise has not been seen at MGM for months....
...With dolly eyes, perfect figure and shining voice Joan Rodgers is a playful but predatory Duchess: very engaging, if on the chilly side for my taste....
...There were plenty of big women stars during this period, with Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford and Marilyn Monroe making films that were box-office hits around the world....
...of Gloucester (Richard III that will be) speaks his first great soliloquy, he takes us into a black-hearted renunciation of love and pursuit of worldly power that makes him startlingly like Alberich in Wagner...
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