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...Gerald Finley (Oppenheimer in Doctor Atomic) as Antony offers a fine blend of fading nobility and lovesick weakness....
...Finley referred me to an excellent paper about balancing the risk and behaviour theories of the value premium, written in 2014 by Clifford Asness and John Liew....
...Special thanks this week to Freddie Martin, Finley Davies, Zehra Munira, Akila Quino and Lulu Smyth....
...Finley’s role debut as Bluebeard sounds gravely convincing, although a real bass might project with more weight. Angela Denoke’s Judith is strongly affecting....
...Law firm names can get unfeasibly long: check out Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, or Finley, Kumble, Wagner, Underberg, Manley, Myerson & Casey, which collapsed in the late 80s....
...John Finley, Fox News’ senior vice-president of development and production, said the service was for “superfans” who “have a demand for more Fox coverage all the time”....
...It is amusing to speculate whether John Adams knew what he was doing when he looked to modern politics as material for opera....
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...When John Adams wrote Doctor Atomic, back in 2005, he left his options open. Here was an opera that, in its focus on the events leading up to the atomic bomb, was as ambiguous as it was impassioned....
...The hard-working cast did what it could, with Gerald Finley as a robust Tell and John Relyea as a formidable Gesler....
...Some iffy choral singing in the other two works apart, John Storgårds leads good-quality Finnish performances....
...At the head of the cast Gerald Finley makes a wonderfully inspiring and stylish William Tell....
...Abbey Farm Barns, Wenden Road, Saffron Walden, Essex CB11 4JE; saffronicecream.co.uk Cream o’ Galloway With a long history in dairy farming, the Finley family turned to making ice cream from their organic...
...Last year at the event Karen Finley painted works inspired by “sext messages” and Joe Zane exhibited a taxidermy chihuahua dressed as a princess....
...Nikolaus Harnoncourt takes “Unto us a Child is Born” at a deadening tempo – a pity, as Gerald Finley sounds magnificent in the bass arias and the Arnold Schoenberg Chorus is extremely fine....
...“We tallied it and saw that I was doing more,” Finley says. So they redistributed tasks more equally. When Finley got up in the middle of the night to breastfeed, Yap would change more diapers....
...In the last act of John Adams’s 1987 grand opera, the drama of clashing ideologies and cultures evaporates....
...It’s no surprise that he’s drawn to quirky characters such as the daydreaming John “J.D.”...
...in the title role and John Osborn as Arnold, the high-flying tenor....
...On January 20 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th president of the United States....
...John Adams Doctor Atomic Metropolitan Opera (Sony, 2 DVDs) John Adams’s opera about Robert Oppenheimer, the man who conceived the nuclear bomb, is really an oratorio with dramatic moments: The libretto...
...Gerald Finley, unusually yet persuasively youthful, brought brooding sympathy to the unsympathetic stances of Golaud....
...John Osborn sailed through the stratospheric reaches of Arnold’s tenor heights with sweetly lyrical roundness. Malin Byström was a sublimely elegant Matilde....
...I’ve already had [older-generation interpreters] Gwynne Howell and John Tomlinson telling me I will hit the wall after the first scene of the final act....
...There are diverse roles in all the operas, of course, but this marvellous CD showcases the songs Britten wrote for the baritones Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, John Shirley-Quirk and Benjamin Luxon – music that...
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