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...Once Maria is sent to try her hand as governess to naval officer Captain von Trapp’s seven children, the urge to rebel takes on a much more serious note. This is Salzburg, 1938....
...Ghislaine Reece-Trapp’s In Paradisum evoked Duruflé and Fauré’s settings with shimmering textures and paradoxically delicate pedal melody; a dedication to someone who passed away during lockdown spoke to...
...Christina Ohly Evans galeriedupassage.com Retrouvius, London “Saving things threatened with destruction” is how Adam Hills sums up the architectural- salvage business he set up with his wife, Maria Speake...
...Millennials “research brands on social media”, says owner Maria Lemos. “We are regularly asked about the provenance of the pieces and the meaning of the stones they are buying.” Stories sell too....
...“I was the whole Famous Five, including the dog, or Maria von Trapp escaping the Nazis,” she says, laughing. “I wasn’t thinking in terms of writing, though....
...Would-be nun Maria is told by her abbess she is to work as a governess for the von Trapp family....
...As Mother Abbess told Maria Von Trapp in the guise of Julie Andrews: “These walls were not meant to shut out problems. You have to face them.” She had a point....
...The award for best pre-apology in a musical must go to Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music: “You know how Sister Berthe always makes me kiss the floor after we’ve had a disagreement?...
...Yes, it’s true, I did always want to be The Sound of Music’s Maria in a bid to dance the Ländler with Captain von Trapp; or maybe The Slipper and the Rose’s Cinderella, whirling across the ballroom with...
...Salzburg, the tiny Austrian city famed for being the birthplace of Mozart and the all-singing von Trapp Wunderkinder, added a new birth to its illustrious registry this week: the arrival of Chanel’s Métiers...
...Meades would have made Maria von Trapp depressed.) Evesham, where he was despatched, was unwelcoming, too....
...The seven von Trapp children, too, are terrific, stealing everyone but Maria’s thunder with a barrage of charm as they career around Peter McKintosh’s sparse, functional set....
...The point about Maria is that she isn’t confident at all. “Oh help,” she says, when she sees the size of the entrance to the Von Trapp home....
...Arguably, her promotion will make her the world’s second most famous Austrian child carer after Maria von Trapp in The Sound of Music....
...Was the musical, about would-be nun Maria’s struggle to come to terms with her love for music and Captain von Trapp and ultimately leaving her convent to escape the Anschluss, actually an allegory avant...
...the Nazis by Count Georg von Trapp and his wife Maria, the world’s most famous embodiment of wholesome Alpine rusticity....
...Yet a child who is too “well dressed” is a worrying sight.Who can forget Fraulein Maria’s first glimpse of the Von Trapp children sailor-suited to within an inch of their lives? “When do they play?”...
...It is impossible to believe that this Maria believes in God or that she is in love with Captain von Trapp....
...Some good friends seem to be going for the Maria von Trapp look this autumn, via Marni’s loose greige pieces but is anyone out there actually channelling Sid James?...
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