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...Under the weight of this orchestral supremacy, the singers become almost incidental, but the cast is strong: Clay Hilley growing into the uncomfortable heights of his role as Kaiser, Elza van der Heever...
...There are very few collective acts of creation once you pass the age of finger painting and making little clay candle-lamps, yet cooking together is one....
...As Siegfried (the marvellous Clay Hilley) and Brünnhilde (Nina Stemme, her voice on the wane, is still enchanting) are forced to perform their final love duet inside the grand piano while supernumeraries...
...Clay Hilley’s Siegfried has extraordinary energy and stamina, and he hurls himself at the role with reckless courage and skill....
...Working with clay or when my kids are coming at me with dirty hands, I don’t want to be afraid of getting messy....
...A white-enamelled oven turned out pot pies, vegetable bakes and Victoria sponges, a nod to the city’s British past; rotis, naans and slow-roasted Bengali delicacies came from a clay chulha by its side, mingling...
...Of course, because I don’t like what he stood for, I put a few posters of revolutionary black candidates on top of it – Eldridge Cleaver and Shirley Chisholm....
...Jacobs tinkers, and thank God he does, fleshing out instrumentation, adding flourishes and colours, breathing life into the clay of Scarlatti’s score....
...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....
...“As I was standing there, Enzo came out with Clay Regazzoni, the Formula 1 driver, and walked across the road to the Cavallino restaurant....
...“If it stays together in clods it’s got quite a bit of clay. If not, there’s more sand in the soil,” he says....
...Jonathan Foyle is chief executive of World Monuments Fund Britain Photographs: Pascal Shirley; M&N/Nikos Desyllas/Alamy; RGB Ventures/SuperStock/Alamy...
...Two gigantic feet of clay echo Shelley’s poem, fragments of the Statue of Liberty painted midnight blue with stars. Vick’s production is a watery affair....
...Shirley Chiu, the previous owner, struck a deal with Shaftesbury. She would sell the building and everything within, from pans and tablecloths to crockery and chairs....
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