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...There are spoken introductions to the arias by Abramović on a recording and in accompanying short films....
...But Shostakovich’s sympathy remains fully with his anti-heroine, the poignant lyricism of her arias offering respite from the raucous cynicism of the rest of the score.The excesses of the music cry out for...
...Maria Callas’s performances of Medea at La Scala in the 1950s and ’60s defined the way many contemporary opera-lovers listen to the work today....
...It features the work of 19 artists from Australia and around the world, including Louise Bourgeois and Maria Kozic. Free entry....
...In her role as Maria, an aged Serbian émigré, Richardson sang short fragments of Grieg and Verdi arias....
...People feel it in their pockets, when they go shopping and in terms of their quality of life,” says Maria do Socorro Braga, a professor at the Federal University of São Carlos....
...I am riding with Arias through the tobacco fields near El Bordo one evening, with the estancia’s gaucho José Maria Gallardo, when Arias tells me how his seven-year-old son recently received a 1,000-peso...
...In the mid-20th century, Maria Callas, the Liz Taylor of the opera world, adored her French haute couture and diamonds....
...Eva-Maria Van Acker’s costumes are a mishmash of baroque bustles with modern hoodies and sports shoes, Thilo Ullrich’s sets a clever glimpse into the inner workings of baroque stage mechanics....
...Expect an evening of the most-loved arias performed by a stellar ensemble....
...Maria Callas never sang in Medea at the Metropolitan Opera, but — because of her interpretation in performances elsewhere, as well as famous recordings — her spirit is the omnipresent force behind the company...
...“[Lula] will take over the country after Bolsonaro and his group tried to deconstruct most of the public policies that were in place,” said Maria do Socorro Braga, a political scientist at the Federal University...
...“Parties have adopted a strategy of focusing resources on candidates with a greater chance of being reelected,” said Maria do Socorro Braga, a political scientist at the Federal University of São Carlos.Analysts...
...There is a forthright Donna Elvira from Irish mezzo Paula Murrihy, at her best in the tricky second aria, “Mi tradi”....
...“Many from the extreme right, several ministers and former ministers, managed to get elected for the first time,” says Maria do Socorro Braga, a political scientist at the Federal University of São Carlos...
...(Maria Bengtsson sang the Countess on the night I attended but was unwell.) On the podium, Gustavo Dudamel keeps a cool head and holds his forces together well....
...Of major pianists, Maria João Pires is the closest in feeling, Maurizio Pollini similar in the fluent speeds, though in his hands the music glints with Italianate light....
...Peruvian chef Pedro Miguel Schiaffino, who has long offered a unique Amazon-to-table food experience on sister boat Aria Amazon, has spearheaded a conservation project aimed at controlling illegal fishing...
...Guests will stay at TC’s beautiful Rincón del Socorro estancia, in the heart of Iberá, where the jaguar project is managed....
...Maria do Socorro explains in graphic detail the spate of ailments affecting newborns in her remote community in the Amazon: her grandson died after being born with his intestines outside his body, while...
...As the number of mortalities has soared, people have recognised how much better this pandemic could have been if the government had taken the necessary steps,” said Maria do Socorro Braga, a professor of...
...“Bolsonaro has crossed the line,” says Maria do Socorro, a political scientist at the Federal University of São Carlos....
...Diego Arias, a former leftwing guerrilla and now an analyst in Cali, says there is probably some truth to the claim. That is why the police in Cali face such heavy weaponry and respond in kind....
...On the empty stage of the Muziektheater in Amsterdam, soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek and baritone Thomas Oliemans stalked each other around the stage, at first lovingly in an excerpt from Lehár’s Die lustige...
...Right now, I’m Happy to have finished my opera 7 Deaths of Maria Callas. It is a combination of performance art and video and focuses on seven famous arias associated with Callas....
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