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...There is a glorious meeting of formal European garden and wild Moray Firth coastline at Dunrobin Castle, the family seat of the Earls of Sutherland and the northernmost of Scotland’s great houses....
...of sculpture, in the Piazza della Minerva, close to the Pantheon — as he puts it, “a three hundred-year-old elephant carrying a three-thousand-year-old obelisk in front of the medieval church of Santa Maria...
...She’s an even worse mother than daughter: her only child, Catherine (Sarah Sutherland), is already the walking wounded when we meet her as a college student and over the seasons we watch in hilarious horror...
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...At Covent Garden in 1964 he created for Maria Callas a production of Tosca that became her farewell to the London stage but served as a platform for dozens of prima donnas for the following 40 years....
...Kathryn Sutherland is a professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and curator of ‘Which Jane Austen?’...
...I saw and heard Sutherland singing Lucia di Lammermoor in the original F major, and thought her voice was a human thunderbolt and she an angel incarnate....
...Vibrating anatomy also occupies Eva-Maria Westbroek interpreting Anna Nicole, complete with prosthetic chest. “I want to blow you all,” she sings to drooling admirers, “kisses.”...
...Maria Crawford Science fiction Escape From Baghdad!...
...More than half a century after she gave up the part, Maria Callas still tops the list....
...For instance, the soprano Giulia must endure the sudden appearance backstage of the era’s notorious singer, Maria Malibran, portrayed by Bebe Neuwirth....
...Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (1907) Gustav Klimt Sold 2006 by Maria Altmann Buyer: Ronald Lauder, Neue Galerie Price: £135m (adjusted $152.6m) 5....
...Consequently, there are glaring omissions and some strange inclusions: Harold Robbins and Jeffrey Archer make the cut but Maria Edgeworth, Lewis Carroll, Rudyard Kipling and PG Wodehouse do not....
...Maria Callas is no goddess to me, so purists who find Master Class, Terrence McNally’s play about her, a desecration will have to go elsewhere for their dose of spleen....
...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...
...Callas brought Bellini’s then-forgotten 1831 opera Norma back to global fame in the 1950s, with Montserrat Caballé, Joan Sutherland and Edita Gruberova following her lead....
...Lives of the Novelists, by John Sutherland, Profile, RRP£30 The fruit of decades of reading and research, Sutherland’s quirky compendium offers selective mini-biographies of 294 English novelists including...
...Lowry’s “Old Houses” that tops the collection is now valued at £300,000-£500,000 while Graham Sutherland’s “Thorn Head” is estimated at £150,000-£250,000....
...I greatly admire opera singers such as Placido Domingo and Joan Sutherland, but I am fascinated by conductors....
...Before that the innocent heroine’s dizzy duties were dominated by Joan Sutherland, and long before her by Lily Pons. In her day Maria Callas virtually redefined the opera in Italy and on records....
...She may find comfort in the fact that a novice named Joan Sutherland once performed similar service for Maria Callas at Covent Garden....
...New York may do better with Zoe Caldwell, whose credits include a notable impersonation of Maria Callas. Hope springs eternal....
...For those who remember Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, Beverly Sills or Edita Gruberova, however, Netrebko’s performance did not justify the delirium. Ultimately the hype may be to her disadvantage....
...(Testament CD) Maria Callas in “The Lisbon Traviata”, 1958....
...Peter Sutherland, chairman of BP and a former EU competition chief, says protectionism in the energy sector could spread to other parts of the economy and provoke tit-for-tat retaliations....
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