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...The moment when the fisherman strikes Ellen Orford, glowingly sung by Nicole Car, is one of numerous explosive climaxes....
...Even so, the decision to present a new documentary about his career as an extended exultant hymn sung by a choir of famous faces is a dubious one....
...Vatican City: Pope Francis leads the Midnight Mass at St Peter’s Basilica...
...by a cast including tenor Joseph Calleja, soprano Nicole Car and baritone Peter Coleman-Wright....
...In Adams’ nativity opera-oratorio El Niño, Bridges takes on the role originally sung by the much-missed Lorraine Hunt Lieberson....
...The role of Elizabeth I was beautifully sung by mezzo Christine Rice, even if Britten probably intended more of a mature, lyric-dramatic soprano....
...I always have music, preferably old‑time tunes from the 1920s like “I Want to Be Bad”, sung by Bernadette Peters in Pennies From Heaven, or songs by Helen Kane – anything with a “boop-oop-a-doop” sound....
...Peter Schaufuss’s 2006 Satisfaction was a particularly painful example of a dance production dwarfed by its playlist (in that case The Rolling Stones), but great choreographers are undaunted by great scores...
...Released in tandem with Peter Gabriel’s Real World Records label, they have been produced by Sherwood and arranged by On-U Sound stalwart, the guitarist Skip “Little Axe” McDonald....
...On the cusp of their 50th anniversary, Peter Phillips and his ensemble long ago secured their place in the top echelon of professional, early music choral groups....
...One significant change that makes this work Sorey’s own is that the solo soprano is now a bass-baritone, sung by Davóne Tines. This is much more than a concert piece....
...The production is imaginatively directed by Matt Copson and Anna Morrissey, extravagantly costumed by Balenciaga and well sung by a good cast....
...Some friends thought that tune should have words put to it and I decided it should be sung by a boy soprano. St Paul’s Cathedral lined up four boys from the choir and I chose Peter Auty.”...
...The enduring power of Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes, though, suggests otherwise....
...Pountney’s time-travelling images of Nazis and the fall of the Berlin wall are neatly dovetailed here and the intellectually challenged Mr Brouček — the always excellent Peter Hoare — at last wins some sympathy...
...“Peter said, ‘Maybe I could read it?’...
...“Unconditional II (Race and Religion)”, sung by Chassagne, has a percussive groove, a dance music peak, reverse-recording effects and a guest appearance from Peter Gabriel, yet still somehow manages to seem...
...Aldeburgh’s mission is to follow the path set out by Britten and his co-founders Peter Pears, his partner, and Eric Crozier....
...Peter Grimes this is not, for all the similarities. The Wreckers had its premiere in 1906 and Smyth’s music flits like a magpie over the styles around at the time....
...Until then, here she is presiding over a down-at-heel convent in 1970s Philadelphia, where every nickel is necessary and, with a sinfully tone-deaf sisterhood, every sung mass an act of penance....
...Before the opera began, the Met’s general manager Peter Gelb asked the audience to honour the people of Ukraine with a moment of silence....
...Three songs by his near-contemporary Peter Cornelius follow in the same vein. Undeterred, Karg has searched beyond the German border....
...Its author, Sung Tz’u, tells how he was able to identify a murderer when he saw that flies were attracted to trace amounts of dried blood on the man’s sickle....
...current vice-president Kamala Harris speaks at a fundraising event for the Democratic National Committee in Washington Thursday North Korea, anniversary of the birth of late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung...
...Christopher Maltman, replacing Peter Mattei, makes a solid, nuanced Count....
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