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...Models, Diane Chiu at Milk and Max Wagner at One. Casting, Ben Grimes at Drive Represents. Hair, Tamas Tuzes at Atelier NYC. Make-up, Cyndle Komarovski at M+A World Group....
...Details: Michelle Jana Chan was a guest of Pura Aventura (pura-aventura.com)....
...There was an imposingly statuesque Fricka from Michelle DeYoung, even with her mangled vowels, and a quick-witted Mime from Adrian Thompson....
...Since standard orchestral programmes end before most Wagner operas call their first intermission, any symphony orchestra seriously devoted to Wagner should noticeably increase its endurance....
...In a sign of the race’s importance, President Barack Obama visited on Tuesday, following two visits by his wife Michelle, while Republicans have sent national figures such as New Jersey governor Chris Christie...
...Jacquelyn Wagner’s lovely lyric soprano found Diemut’s dramatic thrusts something of a strain. The strong supporting cast was sympathetically led by Jeffrey Tucker as the mayor....
...Wagner Parsifal Marek Janowski (PentaTone) (4 CDs)...
...Friedelind Wagner: Richard Wagner’s Rebellious Granddaughter, by Eva Rieger, translated by Chris Walton, Boydell Press, RRP£30 While her brothers Wieland and Wolfgang served the Nazis and hoarded the “gold...
...This staging locates Wagner’s great ode to love some time during the mid-20th century, against a backdrop of totalitarian oppression....
...Not even Michelle Yeoh of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, cast in the main role, can bring out her martial arts chops....
...Gods And Warriors, by Michelle Paver, Puffin RRP£12.99 Pre-classical Greece....
...Michelle DeYoung’s mezzo-soprano (pictured top) delivered Fricka’s pleas with uncommon warmth. Arnold Bezuyen’s wily Loge marked a stellar company debut....
...Ukrainian bass Vitalij Kowaljow is making his role debut as Wotan, with Arnold Bezuyen as Loge, Graham Clark as Mima and Michelle DeYoung as Fricka....
...Though both Michelle DeYoung as Brangäne and Gerd Grochowski as Kurwenal exuded sympathy, she sounded weak and he sounded strained....
...Experienced Wagnerians Nina Stemme and Ian Storey take the title roles and Michelle Breedt sings Brangäne, under Ingo Metzmacher’s baton. Until January 18. www.opernhaus.ch...
...Peter Seiffert and Katarina Dalayman play the title roles, supported by Michelle DeYoung as Brangäne and René Pape (pictured), who reprises the part of King Marke....
...Michelle DeYoung looked strong, sounded weak as Brangäne. Eike Wilm Schulte offered gutsy vocalism as a Kurwenal who moved like marionette....
...Michelle De Young’s pallid Brangaene is the sole disappointment....
...The US television actress Michelle Rodriguez wore one at New York’s Fashion Week in February. Black may remain on the A-list after all....
...Stefan Bachmann’s new production of Wagner’s operateeters between dream and hallucination. The singers walk a tightrope of a different kind....
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