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...Director Barrie Kosky has settled on representing just one of Wagner’s many settings and symbols....
...We have all spent tedious hours watching performances of Wagner and that is absolutely not going to happen with Tony and Barrie....
...March 30 to July 28; further information here Performance ‘Salome’, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma Richard Strauss’s operatic adaptation of the Oscar Wilde play....
...March 13 to April 14; further information and tickets here Australian director Barrie Kosky’s award-winning operatic staging of Handel’s Saul has lavish sets that are a riot of costume and colour....
...Under its previous director, Barrie Kosky, the Komische Oper developed a signature style of high-camp hysteria. Fritsch seems determined to out-camp the campest....
...It was JM Barrie who first captured Eilean Shona, a tidal island in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides....
...Richard Nugee, a retired lieutenant-general in charge of the MoD’s climate change response, conceded that there was “still an awful lot to do”....
...It was closed by the Nazis after star tenor Richard Tauber had been first heckled, then beaten up by Brownshirts, and it was never staged again. Until now....
...In the hands of director Barrie Kosky, Agrippina becomes a relentlessly pepped-up romp....
...Barrie White, chief executive of TfN, said it was vital to “right a historic wrong”. He said the station “would turn Bradford into one of the best connected cities in the country”....
...Some of the imagery is arresting, but most of it is dull and silly; there’s nothing here that JM Barrie didn’t say already....
...A Barrie Kosky production is nothing if not ostentatious. At Glyndebourne, his staging of Handel’s oratorio Saul offered an exhilarating glut of gaudy, imaginative images....
...That is not the case with the Stadttheater Giessen’s first ever world premiere, Richard van Schoor’s Alp Arslan....
...Barrie Kosky’s production of Saul drives the point home by opening with a feast of Baroque splendour, the table piled high with roasted swan and boar’s head....
...There was nothing funny about JM Barrie’s original Captain Hook....
...In bringing Barrie Kosky’s Frankfurt production of Carmen to London, the Royal Opera has uncharacteristically opted for some radical answers....
...This business should itself benefit from hiving off a £12bn annuities book to Rothesay Life and from the modernisation of M&G under Anne Richards....
...Barrie Kosky is the first Jewish stage director to work at Wagner’s Bayreuth Festival, and the first non-member of the Wagner family to stage Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg....
...Barrie Rutter bounces out of rehearsals for Richard III, so short of time that the interview has to take place in his precious lunch hour....
...“It is an area that we specialise in,” said LV chief executive Richard Rowney. “There is definitely growth in that.”...
...Undershaw, which was home to Conan Doyle for a decade until 1907, and where he entertained guests including Peter Pan author JM Barrie and writer Virginia Woolf, opened its doors to pupils this week....
...In recent years, Vanessa Branson — sister of Sir Richard, trailblazing hotelier and since 1995 the island’s owner — has masterminded the renovation of Eilean Shona’s scattered handful of buildings, all now...
...Handel Saul Glyndebourne (Opus Arte) A vast, gaudy, Baroque banquet, worthy of Hogarth, is only the first coup de théâtre in Barrie Kosky’s staging of Handel’s oratorio....
...Barrie’s children’s classic, but are progressively undone by a lethal combination of malfunctioning set, dodgy electrics and incompetent acting — to hilarious effect....
...In Canada, a burial ground of the Huron-Wendat people was uncovered in Barrie, Ontario, when permission was mistakenly given to clear the land for a railway line....
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