Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...It has a hectoring, agitprop feel to it, capped off by a burning house (hello, Greta) and, finally, a massive children’s choir....
...She survived Auschwitz, and her play, which went on to become a television drama, a feature film, a novel and an opera, is an examination of her experiences there....
...A huge orchestra, a top-drawer cast, a high-carat stage director and a fine conductor — what’s not to love? Glanert, who has already penned a dozen operas, knows what he is doing....
...His staging for the Staatsoper had the titular water-nymph as a disaffected young woman from a Berlin houseshare, whose lust for the rich boy upstairs causes her to mutate into a kind of distended earwig...
...Rufus Didwiszus’s sets and Victoria Behr’s costumes present us with a kind of dismal high camp on the tundra — Dodon’s kingdom is nothing but a patch of dry scrub, with a dead tree for the titular golden...
...Petrenko used the considerable force of a Berliner Philharmoniker on top form as a narrator, drawing us into a completely theatrical experience....
...But even for those born with perfect pitch and a photographic memory, there are no shortcuts. As a pianist, a choral singer, and later a cellist and orchestral player, Chan had a good start....
...After some time, a girl dressed as a beekeeper enters, carrying a fishing net which she uses as a stick to tap her way through the set....
...Surely, if there was a way to be a woman without playing either a wench or a man, Mary embodied it. Not here. What a lost opportunity. ★★★☆☆ To February 11, oper-leipzig.de...
...There is no landing — we are just climbing out of a hole. There is a natural tendency to interpret inflation and growth as though we are in a typical business cycle but we are not....
...It is a skill set. This was the instant when the evening became more than a chamber music concert....
...Salome instead gives a short punk performance and then strips with a matter-of-fact innocence, like a child at a medical examination, to her underwear....
...This is both a rarity and a musical treat, so why do the three and a quarter hours take so very long to pass?...
...A lot....
...At age 13, Wei Yi was already a grandmaster. At 15, he was, and still is, the youngest in chess history to achieve an elite GM 2700 rating....
...There are clowns everywhere, and a bunch of fur coats. Radamès smears himself in cut fruit, and everyone gets a machine gun....
...He opens with a tableau vivant of the Géricault painting, on a raft in the vast pool of dark water....
...Austin met then-defence minister Wei Fenghe in Cambodia two years ago....
...“If a customer requests to be in a certain geographical area, the customer needs to share the incremental cost,” said CC Wei, chief executive of the world’s largest chip manufacturer, to investors on Thursday...
...Bi Yi, a veteran army general, was appointed commander of the new Information Support Force, and Li Wei named as its political commissar....
...Another sailor based in California, Jinchao Wei, was also arrested last year on espionage charges. Wei pleaded not guilty and his case continues....
...Under Fischer’s direction, there was a kind of modesty to their Mahler....
...Birdy, by Hung’s founding artistic director Lai Hung-chung, is a sustained duet for Chen I-han and Lee Kuan-ling set to a rhythmic soundtrack by Hsu Chia-wei....
...The venue is a performance in itself. A steampunk fantasy of gigantic machinery in a series of interlocking foyers gives way to a cavernous concrete hall....
...We’re in the time of the Conquistadors, and a young Aztec princess is given as a concubine to a Spanish general....
International Edition