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...In the eighth, concluding part of Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy’s masterpiece, Count Alexei Vronsky, lover of the novel’s tragic heroine, joins thousands of Russian volunteers fighting in the Balkans for the...
...Prime among these is Leoš Janáček....
...Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s prime minister, said ahead of the summit that the details were “something we’re going to tease out as part of discussions today.”...
...One morning in late August, Natalie wakes up in a tent pitched in the mountains of northern California to find her husband Leo and five-year-old son Benjamin have vanished....
...“Because Leo is not that far away you still have some constraints of Earth. Parts of the atmosphere will interfere with the vacuum conditions.”...
...German directors must have their symbols — blame it on imbibing too much Wagner in the womb — and a giant black rook looks on, presiding like a winged harbinger of doom....
...If only we could hear Schubert playing some Mozart, or Wagner’s famed performances of Beethoven....
...Marco Wagner, economist at Commerzbank, said the ECB had unpacked a “new bazooka” in its fight to prop up the euro area. “This will help the bonds of highly indebted countries,” he said....
...In 2013, the bicentenary of Wagner’s birth, it was the only UK theatre to stage Der Ring des Nibelungen, and the result was a triumph....
...The Overture to Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman offered verve and gravitas. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 never wanted for grace or light-footedness. Both readings prioritised propulsion over bombast....
...But occasionally, there is a “blancmange”: for instance, the use of music adapted from the opera Lakmé, composed by Frenchman Léo Delibes, in television advertisements for British Airways, quintessentially...
...Richard Wagner: The Sorcerer of Bayreuth, by Barry Millington, Thames & Hudson, RRP£24.95 This is the plain man’s Wagner – a balanced and beautifully illustrated compendium of life and works, written in...
...I also enjoy the diaries of Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) and his wife Sofya (1844-1919), who kept up a sort of marital war through their journals, writing rival versions of each day....
...There are still openings for next year’s highly ambitious production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, if anybody would like to sponsor Tristan’s left arm or Isolde’s head....
...Surrounded by hints of 1903 scenery and ably supported by Thomas Hampson as Amfortas, our hero mustered a reasonable facsimile of heldentenor prowess as Wagner’s Parsifal....
...Heidi Grant Murphy soothed souls as the Angel and there were admirable efforts from Hubert Delamboye as the Leper and Henk Neven as Brother Leo....
...Wolfgang Wagner. The composer’s grandson. WINNER: Leo Hepner, London Send your answers to: arts.quiz@ft.com by midnight on Wednesday September 6....
...Desai, Mumbai Terry Dickenson, Wheelton Paul Duncan, Newcastle upon Tyne Alex Ezazi, Los Angeles Ricardo Franco Jos Carlos Lopez Fuentes, Mexico Maximiliano Funosas, Geneva Luis Gall, Buenos Aires Leo...
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