Hints and tips:
...The food reminds her of her friend Norma Shirley, the trailblazing Jamaican chef who died in 2010, and just as the mood threatens to dip into melancholy Gordon brings over a tray of sambuca “as a toast to...
...assessment of a new production of Berlioz’s Les Troyens by our opera critic Shirley Apthorp....
...Certainly it was modern for its time, with Rameau’s librettist Louis Fuzelier viewing the exotic “Indians” of the title as noble savages — rather than the primitives they’d been considered before....
...Savage westerly winds that brought 160kph gusts, horizontal rain and snow raged through the night, the wooden buildings creaking and shifting....
...This is a strange way to approach a late classical piece, an application of mid-20th-century performance practice carried out with savage determination....
...Orchestras can be savage beasts, as Simon Rattle can attest: his relationship with the Berlin Philharmoniker has not always been an easy one....
...Young Tina’s savage ambition is unleashed (picture Wednesday Addams dressed as Shirley Temple — on press night, Anya Evans displayed a magnificently annoying helium-Brooklyn voice), the truth about Judy’...
...You might feel exhausted by the monstrous intricacy of Boulez’s Sur Incises for three pianos, three harps and three percussionists, or thrilled by the savage skill of its performance....
...The change in climate was as instant and savage as if thunderclouds had burst inside the theatre. It came from the orchestra pit....
...As a welcome postlude, the orchestra’s 12 cellists performed David Riniker’s instrumental setting of the Poulenc cantata — a sweeter, cleaner version of the choral work, more perfectly in tune but less savage...
...This is a savage, gripping evening that leaves you feeling both elated and sullied. No doubt that is what orgies are meant to do. To January 10, staatsoper.de...
...Where savage laughter might be marshalled to some end, it just goes off like a crass scattergun pointed vaguely and gratuitously at women, gays, northerners, southerners . . ....
...These individually delightful alpha animals turn savage when collectively crossed, and any conductor who somehow falls short of their exacting standards will know it....
...Anja Silja is deliciously vicious in the role, savage and ineluctable, Kostelnicka and Herodias rolled into one....
...He is eventually helped to escape by a nobly savage maid whose adoring femininity is the counterpoint to Caucasian hyper-masculinity....
...In a blasted wasteland beneath a broken highway bridge (sets: Susannne Gschwender), survivors of some nameless holocaust have formed a savage alliance....
...He weaves orchestral colours that range from savage outbursts of rage to gossamer beams of light, all structured with consummate craft....
...Sony’s chief executive has said that the “Shirley Temple factor” could help the company through the choppy waters ahead....
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