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...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....
...These are shown alongside paintings by Peter Paul Rubens, Valentin de Boulogne and Bartolomeo Manfredi, among others....
...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...
...Berlin can and should do better. ★★★☆☆ To December 6, staatsoper-berlin.de...
...(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....
...At Glyndebourne, Danielle de Niese showed how it can be done, radiating infectious joy as Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust....
...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....
...As a young woman she sang in the very first opera, Peri’s Euridice, and later flourished as a singer, instrumentalist and composer in the enlightened Florentine court of Catherine de Lorraine and Maria Maddalena...
...Jeanine De Bique’s Annio offers some of the evening’s most heart-stopping moments of sheer vocal beauty....
...But Ramón Arias of Transparency International in Panama said Mr Varela was “losing support and legitimacy by the day”....
...Speakers include Peter Zumthor, Gabriel Orozco, Annabelle Selldorf, Martino Gamper and Francis Upritchard....
...Mr Roldugin set the president up with his former wife, Lyudmila, and is godfather to his elder daughter, Maria....
...Their rehearsal over, the musicians head west to a local primary school, the Escuela de los Estados Unidos de America, carrying bass drums and snares, cymbals and cheap plastic melodicas....
...“It seems like an odd move to reopen this debate in the middle of the economic crisis,” said Manuel Arias Maldonado, a political analyst and lecturer at the University of Malaga....
...Andrés Jaramillo, businessman and restaurateur Nothing quite prepares you for Andrés Carne de Res, Colombia’s most famous restaurant....
...In a recent L’elisir d’amore, Racik says she watched aghast as the tenor’s trousers slowly split down the seam during the middle of his aria....
...Casoli, who has been making perfumes since 1988, first came to the attention of the Vatican elders when she blended two perfumes for Catholic pilgrims to Santiago de Compostela, called Water of Faith and...
...María Dolores de Cospedal, the PP’s secretary-general and premier of Castilla La Mancha, a region she won from the Socialists last year, insisted after Sunday’s disappointments for her party that reforms...
...José María Arias, chairman of Banco Pastor, one of Spain’s smaller listed banks, said on Friday that he had been speaking to investment bankers to see how to take advantage of the restructurings, although...
...At La Scala there was Maria Callas’s favoured spot – “We all knew about that.”...
...Sutherland, who has died at the age of 83, bestrode the world’s opera stages for the next 30 years, building on the achievement of Maria Callas in re-establishing bel canto opera as a viable dramatic form...
...The seconds before a soprano hurls herself into the chicanes of the Queen of the Night’s aria from The Magic Flute....
...For that, tonight’s performance of Donizetti’s Maria Padilla may prove a happier hunting-ground....
...“We confront a situation of changing cycles, and we know how to face these things,” says José María Arias Mosquera, chairman of Banco Pastor in the Galician port of A Coruña....
...I recall one year when Agnes de Mille, Lucia Chase, the co-founder of ABT, and dancer/actress Maria Karnilova were the three jaded ladies of the night who entertain a single uninterested customer in a Parisian...
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