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...Reid writes well for voices, or the singers turn her vocal writing into a triumph — either way, the cast is superb, and each aria is a tour de force, from Jasmin White’s authoritative Historian and Anthony...
...Krzysztof Warlikowski’s Salzburg Festival production of Verdi’s Macbeth opens with a black and white film of a woman abandoning her baby in a field....
...Instead, he stays within the boundaries of the establishment, a world of carbon copies of past successes, a world run by white men....
...That the Count is a murderer and a rapist would probably have been clear without the addition of a blood-smeared chorus of white-clad girls, but Kušej wouldn’t be Kušej without a bit of extra gore....
...White added Trump had a “deep and intense animus against Mr Steele and Orbis”....
...For this production, Freitas embraces the sterile modernity of Halle E in Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, using its featureless white podium to create a strangely futuristic, abstract space, peopled by robotic...
...She was joined in oblivion by Shirley Jaffe, whose untitled 1954 canvas looks like a city seen through a break in the clouds by a myopic bird....
...In both the UK and the US, the term “precious coral” — the mostly red, pink, and rarer white coral used in fine jewellery — is marred by confusion....
...We see leftover chunks of Grecian statuary, chorus members rugged up in off-white outdoor wear, and the steady fall of fake snowflakes....
...A white sheet, embroidered with the initials “KKK”, hangs on a washing line....
...The walls are white for the first act, black for the second. A gap opens in the rear wall to reveal a fantasy space filled with stage smoke and dancer doubles. Why does anybody do this?...
...Shirley Meng, battery professor at the University of Chicago, concludes that while the two next-generation technologies have a big role to play, it will not necessarily be at the expense of lithium-ion cells...
...She was to enjoy decorous “hops” enlivened by cider cup and the voice of Tommy Steele....
...Even Shirley Jackson’s jelly-cellar, in We Have Always Lived in the Castle, is deeply appealing though we know the pickles and preserves are steeped in death, disarray and mystery....
...Additional reporting by Edward White in Seoul and Ryan McMorrow in San Francisco...
...There is no swan, and the entire cast wears skinny jeans and unflattering sweaters in shades of cream and white....
...Up on Shirley Heights, the air is really crisp. It’s where I can celebrate myself....
...George Shirley among them....
...Their focus is on things like China spending too much money on real estate, or too many white elephant investment projects. Both of which are true, but I don’t view them as insurmountable....
...The entire interior of the Komische Oper has been swathed in white. Netting hangs from the ceiling and over the sides of the circles....
...“I’m really shocked by what is happening in Tennessee at the moment,” Steele said. “I feel like we just went back years. Years.”...
...Her horse, Grane, is a plastic My Little Pony with a red mane; the Waldvogel (wood-bird) seems to have come from the same branch of Toys “R” Us, and is wielded by one of Wotan’s many white-coated underlings...
...Sadly, they sat sepulchred in their snow-white shoebox for months, too lovely to spoil in the outside world, so I sold them on Vestiaire Collective....
...“They were a white boy band. I wasn’t that interested in that music.” The Beatles chose a third of the heads, Blake and Haworth the rest....
...Baartman was enslaved and exported to London and Paris to perform for white audiences, who were encouraged to prod her prominent posterior....
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