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...In 2008, Alan Bennett donated his archive to the Bodleian; here we see the way in which director Nicholas Hytner collaborated with Bennett first on the play The Madness of George III and later on the film...
...Garland’s father Nicholas was a political cartoonist, and the young Alex grew up in London in the company of reporters. Both he and his brother had foreign correspondents for godparents....
...The easiest coup in modern Russian history occurred in the February 1917 revolution, when the semi-autocratic bubble of the Romanov dynasty burst and Tsar Nicholas II submitted his abdication at the behest...
...Prigozhin’s role in Putin’s circle of intimate advisers to that of Grigory Rasputin, the Siberian starets, or holy man, who was a powerful and, to say the least, unconventional figure at the court of Tsar Nicholas...
...Until April 30; further information and tickets here ‘Proud’, Design Museum Danmark An exhibition showcasing 21 folk and regional costumes with modern spins, all designed by artist Nicholas Nybro....
...One way of doing this is to compare the Gershkovich case with that of Nicholas Daniloff, a US News & World Report correspondent who was arrested in 1986 in Moscow....
...Wagner said the collapse of German group Wirecard — which left millions of customers locked out of accounts linked to Wirecard UK last June — had emphasised the need for change....
...And we’ve seen, of course, in Bakhmut the Wagner Group picking people up out of jails, but also, again, throwing all these civilians....
...Karlheinz Stockhausen looked back to the “forward-looking” Richard Wagner for his own crackpot, week-long opera cycle Licht....
...Luther preached here, Mozart played the organ, Wagner was baptised in the font. The building talks across time. Perhaps there really is such a thing as acoustic memory and sermons in stones....
...Almaviva was tenor Nicholas Simpson, particularly adept at the lavish extra ornamentation, though everyone was good at it....
...Despite the competition, Mr Wagner said Cashplus’s longer record would give it an advantage over newer start-ups....
...(If this is all a bit confusing, barrister Adam Wagner has done a good job of explaining it on his YouTube channel.)...
...Rich Wagner, chief executive of Cashplus, a 14 year-old fintech that is aiming to secure a banking licence next year, said: “Of course we would like to get our licence as quickly as possible because we’re...
...Nicholas Hilliard is Britain’s first native-born genius in the visual arts....
...The Rosebud is Birmingham, the young JRR — played first by Harry Gilby and later Nicholas Hoult — dispatched to the West Midlands after his father’s death, mired thereafter in relative poverty....
...Erebus was equipped with copies of The Pickwick Papers and Nicholas Nickleby, stacks of the satirical magazine Punch as well as two hand-organs and a seemingly limitless supply of silver spoons and forks...
...how to entertain” -- FT “trapped in a cab with a cantankerous and over-opinionated driver” -- The Economist “I don’t need to boast because I’m brilliant enough without it ” -- Guardian “the Richard Wagner...
...Charlotte Beament, Nicholas Folwell and Clive Bayley are among the other new members of an able cast....
...His international opera work included staging Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle at Bayreuth on the centenary of the composer’s death....
...But it also drove him on and galvanised others: he was, as the director Nicholas Hytner observed, “the great theatrical buccaneer of the 20th century” and his determination, energy and imagination helped...
...Three-quarters of the singers for last year’s production of Wagner’s The Valkyrie had come from overseas, she said....
...Balancing Acts, by Nicholas Hytner, Jonathan Cape, RRP£20 The ex-director of London’s National Theatre looks back on his tenure....
...As founder of the Aurora Orchestra, Nicholas Collon has shown a young conductor’s enthusiasm for putting together novel (and wildly disparate) programmes....
...Wagner’s Ring cycle deals comprehensively with the first. Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, among others, homes in on the latter....
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