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...The stage is generally bare, with three concentric revolving circles, sparingly used....
...Daniel Jeanneteau and Marie-Christine Soma’s production sets the action in a bare contemporary space, with sliding screens and scrims serving to divide the space where necessary....
...Daphne, stripped down to her underwear, rolls in the snow beside the bare twigs of a winter sapling....
...Caught between social convention, religious oppression and impossible dreams, the protagonist is left shattered, digging frantically in the earth with bare hands, in a futile search for her lost child....
...It’s to unlock things we couldn’t do previously,” says Shirley Meng, battery professor at the University of Chicago....
...Regardless of what happened on stage, this will go down in history as Thielemann’s Berlin Ring, for his absolute control over every note, his lush, full-cream sound, his vivisection of the score, laying bare...
...The simplest answer may be to set up a “bare trust”....
...The saving grace of this concert performance, in the bare-bones setting of Salzburg’s Collegiate church, was the polish and shimmer of the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien’s playing and the purity of Sarah...
...Ingalls, give us luminous bubble-like steampunk nipple-fish, giant condoms and other aestheticised flotsam, on an otherwise bare stage....
...The dead Maria returns as a ghost to haunt the production, barefooted and often bare-breasted. Kares morphs from creepy psycho to remorseful grandfather in the course of the evening....
...A waif in a nightgown, blood dripping from her mouth; a suburban house engulfed in flames; moonlight and the scratch of bare branches glimpsed through a cold window: Gothic imagery abounds in Usher, the...
...Pons has built a sinister set with a dark, prison-like room and a bare winter tree. Münder places all the action of Krenek’s dry, bleak opera inside the room....
...How comfortably can we watch the civil rights-era Green Book knowing the brother of its subject, pianist Don Shirley, called it a “symphony of lies”? And then there is Vice ....
...It all plays out on a bare stage, to which Katrin Lea Tag has added a minimalistic set of moveable blocks, a long kitchen bench, and a podium or bed as required....
...Kopatchinskaja’s trademark is to perform with bare feet, teamed here with a boldly-altered men’s suit, slashed to reveal hints of flesh....
...The bare industrial setting of Carriageworks, a 19th-century rail yard space, lends a much-needed hint of abstraction to the whole. To January 13, sydneyfestival.org.au...
...In Giles Cadle’s set, a bare concrete hall that serves as a meeting-room, public space or banquet hall, Alden gives the action a Bismarck-era historicism with 20th-century touches (costumes: Constance Hoffman...
...British Catholicism is no more of an oxymoron than British romanticism, and Elgar’s work peels bare the soul of both....
...It’s the stuff of farce, but good farce tends to lay bare the pain behind the comedy. Meanwhile the characterisation barely exists and a suicide attempt is flimsily handled....
...Here is a singer who can and will bare all while contorted into the most unlikely yoga poses, who can lean and twist and climb and fall without missing a note....
...It shows the change in the average value of UK farmland (defined as bare agricultural land, in other words without buildings or homes) over the past half century....
...A bare-breasted woman twirls two flaming ropes, one attached to each nipple, in counterclockwise circles. The great thing about opera is that you never know what awaits you....
...Pappano certainly knows how to whip up a storm, as he demonstrated in a punchy account of the one Mussorgsky work, St John’s Night on Bare Mountain, given in its all-the-more weird and wonderful first version...
...The sparse instrumentation, the bare setting, and the absence of electronic augmentation all mitigate against the arcane aura that this piece needs....
...Susanna Branchini’s Lady Macbeth belts like a young Shirley Bassey at the London Palladium....
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