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...Liszt’s Réminiscences de Norma balanced some poetry against barnstorming climaxes....
...The new space features dark navy walls and a spectacular Art Deco chandelier salvaged from Brooklyn’s Grand Prospect Hall, as well as rich marble, brass, and velvet finishes....
...In 1978, she sang both the title role and that of Adalgisa in the same production of Bellini’s Norma at Covent Garden. Bumbry enjoyed a 20th-century prima donna lifestyle....
...Pardon tu dormais . . .’, Barbican Hall, July 9, barbican.org.uk Follow @ftweekend on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first...
...More than 120 public figures, including Sandman-creator Neil Gaiman, Wolf Hall author Hilary Mantel and Salman Rushdie, published an open letter on Thursday warning that advice from the government’s public...
...The Vienna Philharmonic played its annual New Year’s Day concert to an empty hall for the first time since the tradition began in 1939....
...Ms Sánchez put up a banner depicting Noemi at the town hall on Saturday. “I’m not looking for vengeance,” she says. “I’m looking for justice.” Yet, the grisly death toll continues to rise....
...Recitals by Benjamin Grosvenor (all of 26 but already a veteran of the world’s great concert halls) are always intriguingly programmed and this one was no exception....
...A few years ago, mother and daughter made Gift, a well-received album of duets, but then Norma fell critically ill....
...Among others, Fyling Hall School, then Scarborough Sixth Form College. I found it very difficult and was bullied most of the way through primary school....
...‘Norma’ to August 9, eif.co.uk...
....” ——————————————- Letters in response to this article: The realities of ageing at work / From Mr Graham Hall Encourage more births by making homes affordable / From Mr Julio Velarde...
...It is offering smaller portions of food and drink in its cafés and food halls....
...The Barbican Hall holds twice as many people as there are playable copies of the record, and it was full....
...In the 1970s, he worked closely with Karl Lagerfeld in Paris, as well as with Jerry Hall, Pat Cleveland and Paloma Picasso....
...Fiona Hall, MEP. Mark Hughes, former chief executive, North West Regional Development Agency. Lt Col Richard Martin, for services to City of London Corporation....
...Workplace pensions – the old-fashioned kind that set income in retirement as a percentage of the last year of salary earned – sat at the core of industrial modernisation after the second world war, writes Norma...
...Norman Mailer saw fit to call a book Marilyn, and Elton John sang goodbye to “Norma Jean”. Film directors tend not to inspire this kind of personal love....
...Morrison has retained Alvin Hall, the personal finance specialist, to do “money makeovers” with staff to teach them how to manage their personal finances, in a campaign to be known as “Save Your Dough”....
...“Local government pension funds sit on billions of pounds worth of assets, which many of them invest in global infrastructure,” said Katja Hall, chief policy director at the CBI....
...The Dortmund concert hall boasts state-of-the-art acoustics and is sufficiently intimate for a whisper to carry to the back of the hall....
...Tim Flavin as Broadway director Julian Marsh particularly relishes this aspect: when, in the second act, he finally gets the right line delivery out of Lauren Hall’s appealing ingénue, Flavin laughs like...
...Reporting by Norma Cohen, Martin Arnold and Jean Eaglesham in London, Ben Hall in Paris and Alan Rappeport in New York Editorial Comment...
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