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...Last year, almost 400,000 spectators attended the tournament, one of the largest tennis competitions outside of the four Grand Slams, to eventually watch Daniil Medvedev and Petra Kvitová take home their...
...Visitors ranged from Tate director Maria Balshaw, seen at David Zwirner’s booth, to the Swiss tennis supremo Roger Federer, spotted on the Gagosian stand....
...The adjoining park, envisaged by Dutch designer Petra Blaisse of Inside Outside studio with “forest rooms” and some 135,000 plants, has acted as a magnetic refuge for the city’s many residents....
...Another featured a Czech woman, Petra, who had taken a small loan from the BFAWU credit union to help prepare her family’s new home in Wales....
...Sharapova (forearm) and Petra Kvitova (stomach virus)....
...Maria Crawford ——————————————- SCIENCE FICTION Vicious, by VE Schwab, Titan, RRP£7.99 College friends Victor and Eli use near-death experiences to trigger the emergence of latent super powers....
...lasted a staggering five hours, 53 minutes – the longest Grand Slam singles final in professional tennis history – the women’s final saw Victoria Azarenka claim her first major crown in a one-sided win over Maria...
...As the legendary lovers, Peter Seiffert and Petra-Maria Schnitzer both test the limits of their vocal and dramatic range, the latter in a belated role debut....
...Wimbledon was another unpredictable tournament, and the women’s singles victor was Petra Kvitová, a relatively unknown 21-year-old....
...● Maria Sharapova, Russia Current world ranking 6 Wimbledon seeding 5 A solid 2011 so far, with a semi-final at Roland Garros, a runners-up trophy in Miami and a win in Rome, puts this 24-year-old...
...The bowing Austrian soprano Petra Maria Schnitzer invested Elisabeth with radiant tone, floated an exquisite pianissimo, phrased masterfully and conveyed vulnerability without a hint of priggishness....
...Petra Maria Schnitzer is a correspondingly mature Agathe, with ripe and beautifully burnished tones that slip a little lower on each successive venture into the upper register....
...Petra Maria Schnitzer’s Sieglinde is accomplished and Jenifer Wilson’s Brünnhilde fares well, but Juha Uusitalo confirms the impression he gave in Das Rheingold, that however gorgeous the sounds he makes...
...That could not be said of Petra Maria Schnitzer, whose overwrought Marta would benefit from a little less force. By contrast, László Polgár’s Tommaso was an object lesson in restraint....
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