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...Now chief operating officer Erica Arnold is on the way out — having only come into the role in January....
...Mapplethorpe recasts Arnold Schwarzenegger’s hypermasculine physique as a locus for homoerotic desire....
...But the concert’s focus was music by Nikos Skalkottas, a Greek modernist composer who studied under Arnold Schoenberg in Berlin between the wars and whose music has been almost totally neglected since....
...With Simone Young on the podium, Klangforum Wien in the pit, the Arnold Schoenberg choir as chorus, and a serious cast of world-class singers, this is a strange, twilight zone alternative Parsifal that seems...
...Isang Yun, Arnold Schoenberg, Luigi Nono, and Mahler’s version of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony: this was a programme with no short cuts that made an uncompromising demand for the full engagement of the listener...
...Alex Penda is assured and versatile as Mrs Slender, Anett Fritsch adventurous as Mrs Ford, while Maxim Mironov and Arttu Kataja also give committed performances as their husbands, and the Arnold Schoenberg...
Daniel Barenboim conducted a programme of Schoenberg’s European career with grace and ease
The festival’s ‘Day for Pierre Boulez’ was a triumphant celebration of the composer
Bruno Ravella’s staging brought breeziness and a superb cast to the comedy based on Strauss’s marriage
...Holocaust references are a delicate matter on any stage, but a defensible choice in a production of Arnold Schoenberg’s monolithic Moses und Aron....
...The Apartment Jack Lemmon is now unemployed, since the insurance company no longer needs low-level clerks, and he never meets Shirley MacLaine, since there is no need for lift operators....
...Brontë’s novels are all emotionally raw; it was what made her last, Villette, so searing to read, and what prompted Matthew Arnold to turn from that novel in disgust, saying that there was nothing but “hunger...
...Bryan Hymel tackles the murderously high part of Arnold with bravura and brilliance; it is thrilling to hear him....
Annie Proulx’s stark short story is the very stuff of opera
...Marina Rebeka’s Mathilde, princess of the wicked Austrians transformed by her love for Arnold, sings with radiance, technical precision and vitality....
...John Osborn sailed through the stratospheric reaches of Arnold’s tenor heights with sweetly lyrical roundness. Malin Byström was a sublimely elegant Matilde....
...Matt Peacock, founder and chief executive, Streetwise Opera.Shirley Phillips, co-owner, Cosyhome Insulation, for services to sustainable energy....
...At GoldenEye, the music from the restaurant and bar is Radio Nova, a French station that plays Shirley Bassey one moment, Jay-Z and reggae the next....
...It’s good to see that, nearly 170 years on from the days of Thomas Arnold, greatest of Rugby School headmasters and father of the modern public school system, the school is still at the forefront of new...
...Weidauer’s production draws strength from Arnold Bezuyen (left, with Juanita Lascarro as Etherea), whose ingenuous portrayal of the title role is so captivating that the setting becomes secondary....
...Luka seedy yet intriguing, Gerd Grochowski makes the murderous Shishkov almost likeable, Olaf Bär brings gentle strength to the part of Petrovich, Erik Stoklossa is a wrenchingly fragile Alieia, and the Arnold...
...The freezing temperatures prompted Arnold Schwarzenegger, California’s governor, to proclaim a state of emergency in 10 of the state’s counties....
...Beatty, latterly known as Mr Annette Bening, caused something of a ruckus during a recent outing at UC Berkeley when he branded co-actor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a reactionary rightwing bully....
...Rule 7: “Outsourcing isn’t just for Benedict Arnolds. It’s also for idealists.” This is, at least, no sillier than the advice of many management consultants....
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