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...For Roderick Williams, baritone of inimitable good sense and evident sangfroid, the production of Gerald Barry’s opera The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit at the Aldeburgh Festival in 2002 comes top of the...
...It is a shame that these are no longer full-length operas staged in the main Snape Maltings, but the smaller Britten Studio has hosted an almost unbroken series of successful chamber-sized operas, so maybe...
...Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell quickly contradicted McCarthy, saying that in the upper chamber of Congress his party’s support for Ukraine would remain solid....
...“Sonangol was both a concessionaire and the regulating body,” said Maria da Cruz, president of the US-Angola chamber of commerce. “That’s like being a referee and a player at the same time.”...
...The curtain rose on Roderick Phifer in a darkened bedroom doing proud by the song in his head — or headphones, anyway....
...Less successful is Roderick Buchanan’s decision to film historian Owen Dudley Edwards talking about the Irish Republican leader James Connolly for over an hour....
...Not that he is a stranger to Britten’s comic chamber opera: he has played butcher’s assistant Sid both in live performance and on recording....
...Of the large cast, though, only King Priam has the potential to touch the emotions, and Roderick Earle rose impressively to the challenge....
...Both CDs feature the excellent baritone soloist Roderick Williams....
...But apparently he has other operas in mind for the Sussex company’s 80th anniversary, so this attractively cast concert performance with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra is as far as he will get with Così...
...The BBC Symphony Orchestra under Martyn Brabbins showed how radiant Harvey’s orchestral writing can be, even when using chamber-sized forces....
...The chamber orchestra keeps up a hard-edged narrative, but the music does not communicate much emotional sympathy....
...Luke Williams’ self-consciously literary tale of family and empire, The Echo Chamber, features a two-month overdue baby with preternatural hearing....
...Andrew Kennedy and Roderick Williams shine as composer and poet, as do Quirjin de Lang’s Count and Sara Fulgoni’s Clairon. Matthew Best is a monotonous La Roche....
...“Design is a step behind the fashion industry,” Wallpaper* magazine’s editor-in-chief, Tony Chambers, says....
...Roderick Williams made a credible Aeneas, Jennifer Johnston a far-from-caricatured Sorceress....
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