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...This is the second music-theatre evening in the hall this month, following a dynamic incarnation of Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo with puppetry by South African director Janni Younge....
...More than 200 years before Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, composer André Ernest Modeste Grétry’s Zemira e Azor told a similar story....
...For this production, Freitas embraces the sterile modernity of Halle E in Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, using its featureless white podium to create a strangely futuristic, abstract space, peopled by robotic...
...As well as cultural tours it offers ski trips to the Koh-e-Baba mountains (including one last month led by a female Slovenian mountain guide)....
...David Morris, buying manager at the luxury men’s e-tailer Mr Porter, says sales of joggers have grown by almost two-thirds at the brand in 2020 compared with last year, with shoppers snapping up versions...
...We downgrade our rating to Sell, and transfer coverage to Owen Shirley.• Competitive pressure could intensify: The arguments around competition from the aggregators (JustEat, UberEats and Deliveroo) are...
...Multi-layered, meta, awash with literary references and full of unexpected twists and turns, this “opéra fantastique” imagines three ghoulish episodes from the Romantic writer E.T.A Hoffmann’s love life,...
...In contrast, “W A K E (for Grenfell)”, the album’s highlight track, begins with the leader’s acid-toned alto toasting over a stamp of feet....
...Midway through the composition, a nod from bassist Rio Kai cued a change of pace, and guitarist Shirley Tetteh mixed township vibes with pensive bursts of speed....
...You do not have to like the determinedly 1960s approach that Barenboim brings to Mozart’s E minor piano quartet (KV 493) to appreciate what he is attempting with this repertoire in this space....
...Like her, I often catch myself peering over someone’s shoulder on the Tube in an attempt to catch a glimpse of the screen of their e-reader, or immediately scanning bookshelves when I visit a friend’s house...
...I grew up listening to artists like Chet Baker, Billie Holiday and Shirley Horn, so that left a big impression on me. Sadly, I can’t sing to save my life....
...Shirley and Porkpie sit in a pub, discussing Desmond’s ill health. “None of us expected to die here,” she tells him. “We always thought we would go home to die....
...Marco Stroppa’s Nel fuggir del tempo: e’l sole was also down to be performed on Friday. But the composer did not finish the piece in time. Birtwistle at least got that part right. br.de/musica-viva...
...Instrumentation is minimal but Charles E Nicholson, who designed the Redwing more than a century ago, was smart enough to add one little luxury....
...We don’t send blankets,” says Shirley Elghanian, founder of Magic of Persia, a London-based charity that promotes contemporary Iranian art in the west....
...Shirley Cook is CEO of Proenza Schouler. DVF has a female CEO: Paula Sutter....
...But Dudamel is a product of the Fundación del Estado para el Sistema Nacional de las Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles de Venezuela, the country’s hugely hyped scheme for social change through music....
...Her first two arias, from Lotario and Teseo respectively, were full of the turbo-powered coloratura that she delivers with such effortless elan; the third, Lascia la spina from Il Trionfo del Tempo e del...
...Everything goes to the Shirley Foundation, which I started in 1996....
...Additional reporting by Shirley Chen...
...Meanwhile, the US TV programme that made him a star, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., is finally being made into a film – directed by Guy Ritchie. small.screen@ft.com...
...Diehl himself gets a Shirley MacLaine fringe, presumably in a bid to make a 36-year-old German screen star (late of Inglourious Basterds) look 20....
...With additional reporting by Shirley Chen...
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