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...This will be the first season with Antonio Pappano as chief conductor. The line-up of concerts is impressive, not least because Pappano himself will be conducting a high proportion of them....
...It was 10 years ago, when they were working together on Tristan und Isolde at the Royal Opera House, that conductor Antonio Pappano, director Christof Loy and soprano Nina Stemme hatched the idea of joining...
...Some conductors only get to do the Ring once,” says Antonio Pappano, as he looks forward to opening the Royal Opera’s 2023-24 season on Monday with his second new production of Das Rheingold — the first...
...The plan is for Antonio Pappano, just starting his last season as music director, to conduct each of the four parts of this Ring as they come round....
...Puccini: Turandot Antonio Pappano Opera recordings made in a studio are a rarity these days....
...The idea of bringing Loy and the Royal Opera’s music director Antonio Pappano together for Elektra goes back more than a decade....
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...Antonio Pappano has risen to new heights as he approaches the last season of his long tenure as music director, and the passion he draws from Massenet’s orchestra reaches boiling point....
...For the LSO, this was an opportunity to show where it stands as the baton is passed to Rattle’s successor, Antonio Pappano....
...Nobody can accuse Antonio Pappano and Warner Classics of rushing their cycle of Puccini’s operas. It is nearly 30 years since their release of La Bohème....
...The pace and drive of Verdi’s opera were supplied powerfully by Royal Opera music director Antonio Pappano, whose performances these days are distinguished by a focus on bold, brightly coloured orchestral...
...Denmark’s Frederiksen told Andy Bounds and Richard Milne that her hard line on crime and immigration was popular with traditional, poorer leftwing voters....
...Other conductors have found greater transparency in Berg’s music, but Antonio Pappano’s combination of attention to detail, depth of sound and dramatic drive makes for a compelling experience....
...After the full-blooded Verdi of Antonio Pappano it comes as a surprise to encounter the lighter style of conductor Bertrand de Billy....
...As Antonio Pappano prepares to take up the role of chief conductor in 2024, his appearances assume extra significance, especially this latest concert, which had no soloist, only three hefty pieces for large...
...In the two decades that Antonio Pappano has spent as music director of London’s Royal Opera House, his most memorable nights have often come from Puccini, but there is one Puccini opera he has never conducted...
...(“Don’t ask me the difference,” says curator Antonio Monda.)...
...Another major source of friction has been UN secretary-general António Guterres’ repeated calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, as a humanitarian crisis grows in the enclave, with only a trickle of aid able to...
...UN secretary-general António Guterres condemned the attack by Hamas and urged “all diplomatic efforts to avoid a wider conflagration”....
...Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, and Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, have convened a hearing before the Senate permanent subcommittee on investigations....
...Richard Moriarty, the new chief executive of the UK’s accounting watchdog, has signalled he is relaxed about allowing the Big Four to continue dominating Britain’s audit market....
...An Israeli military spokesperson, Richard Hecht, said on Monday that Israel did “everything we can to minimise collateral damage”....
...French basketball phenom Victor Wembanyama made his debut this week with the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs against instate rivals the Dallas Mavericks....
...The competitive challenges come amid the departures of star rainmakers including Antonio Weiss, Gary Parr and Matthieu Pigasse....
...She acquired paintings, watercolours and drawings and other works from artists such as the above-mentioned Bertel Thorvaldsen, Antonio Canova, JL Lund and Angelica Kaufmann — and this is the largest ever...
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