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...Alexander Chance, resplendent in a gold suit as the countertenor Apollo, is lucid and clear. The many other, smaller roles are well taken....
...Constantine Cavafy, one of the greatest modern Greek poets, was born in the Egyptian city of Alexandria — founded by Alexander the Great in or around 331BC — and rarely visited Greece....
...His case was heard at the same time as that of Achilleas Kallakis and Alexander Williams, which was referred to the appeal court by the Attorney General’s Office for being unduly lenient....
...But Alexander Goehr, approaching his 80th birthday in 2012, has summoned a lifetime’s experience to compress the play into a chamber opera lasting just under an hour-and-a-half, initially with the help of...
...Dutch designer Roderick Voss has an own-design outlet (www.roderickvosshop.nl), as does Donna Wilson (www.donnawilson.com), while London duo BarberOsgerby aim to launch a webshop later this year....
...Anna Leese is again the hard-bitten Musetta, Roderick Williams the lively Schaunard and Alexander Vinogradov a Colline of gravelly Russian bass tone, with Adrian Clarke adding a nicely-judged cameo as Alcindoro...
...Baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Andrew West were admirably articulate in it....
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