Hints and tips:
...On stage, Muslims, Jews and Christians pray together and embrace. This cannot end well, and it doesn’t....
...Last week the house appointed Christian Thielemann to succeed Daniel Barenboim as general music director. And now this....
...Percussionists Christian Dierstein and Dirk Rothbrust bash, brush and churn a range of startling objects, from anvils and rocks to a gigantic wooden windmill filled with stones....
...Dramaturge Christian Longchamp sketches a trilogy: Oedipus; the Virgin Mary; Macbeth. Why? This, too, is confusing....
...But I particularly object to Shirley Apthorp’s sideswipe about the appointment of Christian Thielemann as successor to Daniel Barenboim as general music director at Berlin’s Staatsoper....
...Christian Gerhaher is Wozzeck. Every syllable, every nuance is there, infused with the weary melancholy of exhausted suffering....
...It’s to unlock things we couldn’t do previously,” says Shirley Meng, battery professor at the University of Chicago....
...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...
...“The problem is how to compete with China,” said Shirley Meng, a materials scientist at the University of Chicago, adding that while the US government was pushing to reduce the country’s reliance on the...
...Instead, we got Christian Thielemann, known for his Wagner, Strauss, Pfitzner and vocal support for rightwing political groups — an indication of just how grave Barenboim’s illness must be....
...This was also the final performance of current artistic director Christian Thielemann and his Dresden Staatskapelle at the festival....
...Shirley Chisholm famously said, “I’ve been black, I’ve been female . . .”...
...Shirley Jackson’s gothic masterpiece The Haunting of Hill House (£44.95), first published in 1959, is widely acknowledged as one of the all-time great ghost stories....
...When Roxane breaks Cyrano’s heart by confiding in him about her infatuation with the handsome Christian, he seems to shrink physically....
...But among photographers, a standout revelation: Shirley Baker’s colour shots from the back streets of Hulme, Manchester, in the summer of 1965 — prams around an ice cream van, women scurrying through demolition...
...The Theater an der Wien got two things right with the world premiere of Christian Jost’s Egmont on Monday....
...Set designer Christian Schmidt and video artists rocafilm have drawn on the middle-class area surrounding the Deutsche Oper to create a narrative for a comfortably-situated couple; director Claus Guth weaves...
...The 66-year-old Danish composer has worked with librettist Henrik Engelbrecht to pare down Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale into a dark road-movie of an opera about love and transience....
...But that was nothing compared to Jarman’s 1976 film, which tells the story of the early Christian martyr St Sebastian with dialogue entirely in Latin....
...Singers Aude Extrémo and Christian Van Horn bring multitasking to a new level, playing hard while singing gloriously....
...Viggo Mortensen’s Tony is a working-class Italian-American bouncer from the Bronx who lands a job working for Don “Doc” Shirley (Mahershala Ali), a jazz pianist....
...Christian Schmidt’s stage is a cavernous room containing only a bed, a fireplace and a chair or two; a ghost room, featuring the same objects, often appears in front of the original, presumably representing...
...Christian Schmidt has created an eloquent set of three grand yet sterile interconnected rooms for Claus Guth’s staging....
...In the famous covered orchestra pit, Christian Thielemann does what he does best, bringing exceptional delicacy and considerable weight to the score....
...Christian Gerhaher brings even more exactitude to the role of Amfortas, singing every letter of his text with love and lending the whole exceptional formal grace....
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