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...A dark love letter to nature and queerness, in which angelic boys are pitted against fascistic ringmasters, it was made at and around Prospect Cottage, Jarman’s beloved home at Dungeness on the Kent coast...
...The handmade wooden vessel is a bona fide artwork titled “Ghost” and piloted — expertly so — by its creator, the Kent-based practitioner Adam Chodzko....
...Cattelan’s elusiveness provokes me to prod further but in truth, the artist is more Clark Kent than Joker. An old hand at invisibility, he replies to my last question — is he essentially a pessimist?...
...Rachel Spence OPERA Thomas Adès It is 13 years since Thomas Adès’s last opera....
...“The defining moment [at Chatsworth] was when the house, garden and park were united as one,” he explains, referring to the era in which his 18th-century ancestors employed architect William Kent and landscape...
.... ——————————————- Rachel Spence was a guest of Air Canada (www.aircanada.com) and Fogo Island Inn (www.fogoislandinn.ca)....
...The interiors were entrusted to William Kent, an architectural decorator who married classical motifs with baroque fancy....
...from Miah Persson (Governess) and Toby Spence (Quint)....
...Toby Spence starts proceedings eloquently in the prologue and makes a strongly sung Quint, well supported by Giselle Allen’s Miss Jessel....
...Toby Spence, inexplicably deprived of Ottavio’s second aria, sings stylishly, and Marita Solberg, the luscious new Zerlina, proves much more than a soubrette....
...The new production of Die schweigsame Frau, staged by Barrie Kosky and conducted by Kent Nagano, quickly sold out....
...Toby Spence and Joshua Hopkins are first rate as Tamino and Papageno; William Lacy conducts with stylish assurance....
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