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...Refugees, unjust imprisonment and torture, a catastrophic flood — the subjects of Luigi Nono’s Intolleranza 1960 are depressingly topical....
...His endless flood of imagery ranges from intensely moving to bemusingly obtuse. Leporello is a clone of his master, eventually taking over when the life force leaves the latter....
...The flood of online operas during the past year has put a very different picture in front of us....
...The actress Shirley Dixon, who is 87, has been isolating in London. Like O’Connor, her only physical contact with another person has been medical — a CT scan and a blood test....
...There are natural catastrophes, such as floods and earthquakes. And then there are man-made catastrophes, such as Yuval Sharon’s new production of Die Zauberflöte at Berlin’s Staatsoper....
...Bo Skovhus, formidable in the huge title role, does his best to gesticulate and emote his way into our hearts, but not even he can compete with the flood of senseless pictures....
...She put on a pair and she just started crying . . . floods of tears....
...But some believe the party may have irreversibly changed since a flood of new, more radical, members entered since 2015....
...Dame Stephanie Shirley, one of Britain’s most inspirational entrepreneurs, has some bracing advice when it comes to Brexit....
...The vast foyer windows of Kuhmo’s exquisite 668-seat Arts Centre and the pale light that floods the 1816 wooden church bring the feeling that the man-made here rests only thinly on the ancient earth, and...
...The result is an overwhelming flood of impressions, mesmerising and voluptuous....
...On to Lutoslawski’s Symphony No. 3, with the dark structured chaos of its opening, its romping fugues, scampering vehemence, and floods of light....
...Star philosopher Peter Sloterdijk’s libretto traces the opaque love story of an exiled Jew, a Soul and a Babylonian priestess through seven scenes involving two conflicting versions of the Flood, human sacrifice...
...As it is, Magee never has a chance, all her subtleties lost beneath a flood of orchestral sound....
...The 1970s Labour cabinet even had a secretary of state for prices and consumer protection, a job initially held by Shirley Williams, whose scatty-mumsy political style was perfect for the role....
...South Africa-born Shirley Apthorp, FT music correspondent in Berlin and founder of the organisation Umculo (Xhosa for both “Reconciliation” and “Music”), says she was astounded by the event....
...Additional reporting by Patti Waldmeir and Shirley Chen in Shanghai...
...It will be much harder for the GEM to achieve that critical mass” Additional reporting by Shirley Chen and agencies...
...Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm of New York launched a quixoticbid for the Democratic nomination in 1972 and two firebrand reverends, Jesse Jackson and Mr Sharpton, tried more recently....
...Torrents of gorgeous sound flood the house. Botha is a tenor’s tenor, a man who hangs on to top notes just because he can, with a “look-Ma-no-hands” illusion of ease....
...how lucky I have been to report on some of the momentous international sailing events of recent years and how privileged to have sailed briefly with great sailors such as MacArthur (off Hong Kong), and Shirley...
...A 1998 study by the National Wildlife Foundation found that 40 per cent of federal flood insurance payments were for buildings that had claimed help after previous floods....
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