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...Since the Berliner Philharmoniker left Salzburg for Baden-Baden’s Easter Festival 10 years ago, its annual opera productions have been characterised by stupendous soundscapes and mediocre stagings....
...Lohengrin at this year’s Salzburg Easter Festival plays as a thriller. No longer the innocent victim, Elsa is cold-blooded and manipulative....
...What better piece for the Berliner Philharmoniker’s annual Easter residence under Kirill Petrenko?...
...Eventually, the Easter holidays could begin and I headed home in the sunshine. Going inside, nothing immediately struck me as catastrophic....
...Charlotte Brontë’s 1849 novel Shirley contains the first recorded use of which alliterative two-word term for frontier America?...
...Darren Shirley at broker Shore Capital predicted full-year profit of £4m....
...If Baden-Baden wishes its Easter Festival to have any significance in Europe’s annual opera calendar, it needs more than this. ★★★☆☆ To April 2, festspielhaus.de...
...“No part of the high street appears to be immune from this downturn now,” said Darren Shirley, a retail analyst at Shore Capital....
...The Easter Festival endures, despite the unceremonious departure of Karajan’s Berliner Philharmoniker for the more lucrative stages of Baden-Baden five years ago....
...Just the vast resources of the Berliner Philharmoniker’s Easter festival in this affluent centre, and the expectations of an elderly, conservative audience base....
...For the central opera of its third Easter Festival in Baden-Baden, the Berlin Philharmonic has all its ducks in a row....
...In the title role, Michael Volle (inexplicably made up to resemble outgoing Salzburg Easter Festival director Peter Alward) is rock-solid and imposing....
...Richard Eyre’s production of Manon Lescaut for Baden-Baden’s Easter Festival is one grotesque absurdity from start to finish....
...This year’s Easter festivals on the continent are an orgy of safe choices and conventional repertoire, with not a spring chicken in sight....
...It is not possible to walk down the street in Baden-Baden over Easter without running into members of the Berliner Philharmoniker. Ever wondered what the players look like naked?...
...Somehow, Baden-Baden’s Festspielhaus has sold all 30,000 tickets for its new Easter Festival, and the event already feels paradoxically settled....
...After 36 years as the Easter Festival’s resident orchestra, the Berliners bailed out abruptly in May 2011, giving Salzburg very little time to find a replacement from 2013....
...A gigantic moon, symbol of obsession, gazes out at the audience of this year’s Salzburg Easter Festival. Literally....
...It began at last November’s piano festival, continued at Easter, and concludes on August 23 and 25....
...I predict that this book, appearing only weeks before the likely advent of my friend Michael Gove as the most radical education secretary since Shirley Williams, will set the education debate alight in a...
...“It appears the planning wasn’t the strongest,” said Darren Shirley, analyst at Shore Capital. Mike Davies, chief executive, insisted the company would deliver a “satisfactory” outcome for the year....
...Which he does for the opening of this year’s Lucerne Easter Festival....
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