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...Venkat’s plan is a sort of “Hail Mary” attempt to revitalise Barclays, which has for years traded at a deep discount to its book value much to the disappointment of its shareholders....
...June 1 to 16; further information here July Performance ‘Dido and Aeneas’, Melba Hall A new production of Purcell’s Baroque opera by VOYCE (Victorian Opera Youth Chorus Ensemble) in a grand Melbourne...
...Together they led a lobbying campaign that culminated in the establishment of St Mary’s Alpine Park, which would then grow into the Purcell Wilderness Conservancy — 500,000 acres of protected land in which...
...Other parts of the palace are used for performances too, not least the Hall of Mirrors, where Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas can be heard on April 20, and the Chapelle Royale, where Bach’s B Minor Mass and Mozart...
...Set among 34 acres of parkland and surrounded by ancient cedar trees, the Grade I-listed Jacobean mansion was originally built in 1623 for Lady Mary Reade, a young widow who would go on to marry Sir Edward...
...The second programme — Purcell’s Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary and Georg Friedrich Haas’s in vain — intriguingly paired works separated by 300 years....
...His tall, always elegantly dressed figure was a staple in opera houses and ballet venues across the world, and the many books he co-authored with Mary Clarke over the years remain classic texts....
...The biggest impact, though, came from the noble simplicity of Purcell’s Funeral Music for Queen Mary....
...Two of Handel’s celebratory suites of Water Music were paired with the first English opera of note, Purcell’s ever-popular Dido and Aeneas....
...“Lagrime mie”, sung with heartfelt beauty by Mary Bevan, is her best-known piece, anguished and powerfully expressive (think of Dowland or, later, Purcell in the English tradition)....
...Mark Purcell, author of The Country House Library, says marginalia is “completely standard” in any old collection, because it used to be “totally normal to write in books”....
...It was also a good vehicle for the countertenor Tim Mead and soprano Mary Bevan, who threw themselves into the works’ drama....
...The reign of William and Mary was not a musical golden era comparable to some in continental Europe, but with Purcell at its height it had a glorious champion....
...Mary Gendron Billy Connolly, before he dried out. Because life’s just too short. David Gosling EMBA fees or . . ....
...Then, two years ago, Sorli invited Mary Miller, director of Bergen National Opera (BNO), to see a performance of Dido and Aeneas....
...The Other Mary has marked the start of Sellars’s five-month residency at ENO, which will involve various community projects and culminate in a production of Purcell’s unfinished semi-opera The Indian Queen...
...The narrative, such as it is, sees Henry Purcell journey from England to Scotland, where he hears some rollicking pub music and samples the local firewater. The rest is hard to recall....
...We meet the young Duke of Gloucester (Joshua James), sickly nephew to William and Mary....
...Genuflecting in coloured balaclavas, the Pussy Rioters launch into a gutsy bricolage of punk and plainchant – “Virgin Mary, drive away Putin” – while security agents try to drag them off....
...I had come to see my superstar of an Oxford classical ex-pupil singing as a black-winged fairy in Purcell’s Fairy Queen....
...The Yorkshire-born mezzo is, after all, renowned for virtuous beauty as Purcell’s Dido, regal posture as Donizetti’s Mary Stuart, tragic grandeur as Britten’s Lucretia – and, yes, her noble impetuosity in...
...My iPhone and a pair of white Jack Purcell Converse. Do you buy postcards and, if so, who do you send them to? No, I’m all about sending e-mails and iPhone photos....
...“The Spinners” ends the show, as only it could – compositionally it is the perfect overarching companion-piece to “Christ in the House of Martha and Mary” with which it began....
...Back in the Prado, Antonio Moro’s seated portrait of Mary Tudor, hung near the 1938 “Femme assise”, pushes the whole conceit into arbitrariness....
...Mr Aguirre said that Mary Jo White, the former New York federal prosecutor who was advising the Morgan Stanley board, talked directly to Linda Thomsen, the SEC’s director of enforcement, about the case....
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