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...“These families are defined by their special inherited status as librarians. The red dust of the desert is a constant threat.”...
...Piotr Beczala is in sterling form as Adriana’s lover Maurizio, making a deep impression in his brooding aria “L’anima ho stanca” and later reciting his military accomplishments with swagger....
...The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, in Boston, opened an exhibition around Raphael’s warm and intimate portrait of Tommaso Inghirami, the papal librarian, last autumn....
...Yet Sebregondi, 68, is no retiring librarian. Today she is wearing diva-ish leather trousers, black platform boots and an Issey Miyake silk roll-neck — and sporting a polished, silvery bob....
...But the opera’s militarism — exemplified by an incessantly recurring march tune — limited opportunities to put them to use: the work is awash with oath-swearing and “Viva l’Italia!” sentiments....
...The concert’s second half brought lighter fare – folksongs (the serene French “L’amour de moy”) and several spirituals, one of which enlisted the arresting soprano range of Cortez Mitchell....
...Manage a P & L so that you have financial, management and frontline customer and client expertise....
...… The L-profession Members of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals have been complaining about a £35,000 rebranding exercise that sought to remove any references to the “L-word...
...The lane is famous as the scene of the first kiss between two of literature’s greatest detectives, Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane, creations of my favourite crime author Dorothy L Sayers....
...The first, L’Agamemnon, limps to a close after little more than 15 minutes, its title character never seen, while the 100-minute Les Euménides deals mainly with Orestes’ trial before Athena....
...It is a fundamental problem in mathematical logic, although it is probably better known as the Librarian’s Paradox, as it is easier to understand in terms of a public library’s catalogue of its books: ie...
...In “Send My Roots Rain”, a librarian, stood up by a famous male poet, can only console herself with bittersweet memory and fantasy....
...Above all, during the handing-over of Dufour’s treatise in the refectory of the Trinità, the warm copper-coloured glow of old Armagnac blending with the rich greens and reds of Fra Andrea Pozzo’s trompe l’...
.... ★★☆☆☆ Stephen Lawless’s staging of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, updated to the end of the second world war, provides a welcome antidote to the dispiriting Gluck....
...Haydn knew – and even amusingly quotes from – Gluck’s Orfeo but, like his contemporaries, he disregarded the earlier composer’s radical rejection of bravura arias: L’anima has some stunners....
...Andy Pape’s L’Anima della musica, heard in its world premiere, emerged as a brief but colourful struggle between primitive rhythms and music of a more lyrical instinct....
...In a seething account of the Stravinsky Violin Concerto in which soloist Thomas Zehetmair pierced the work’s neoclassical trappings to emphasise its kinship to the diabolical L’histoire du soldat....
...At its Paris premiere in 2006, Adriana was thought to lack dramatic pulse, a criticism that L’Amour de loin largely eluded, though it too is a slow-moving, contemplative work....
...for shading, including an uncanny ability to produce a tone that grows almost imperceptively out of silence, lent spirituality to the “Abîme des oiseaux” movement, while Thédeen’s playing in “Louage à l’...
...Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, regarded as the first great opera, is now 400 years old, an anniversary that has found the work cropping up at many an opera company....
...Indeed you might think that a few pairs of $99 breathable waders from L.L....
...But many visitors took a more contemplative pleasure in the works, and this is one of the great virtues of “l’incroyable” Arcimboldo, as the posters are calling him....
...Neurologists, in general, were opposed to Freud’s theories, especially the real-life Charles Loomis Dana, Bernard Sachs and M. Allen Starr....
...With its charming trompe l’oeil decor and 756 seats – Beverly Sills sang Aïda here – it offers further evidence that the economics of opera in America do not mandate gargantuan spaces....
...To the orderly minds of the world’s national librarians, the system seemed little better than anarchic....
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