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.... ★★★★★ Brutality also infuses Dmitri Tcherniakov’s new Così fan tutte, which opened the night before Wozzeck in Aix’s beautiful Théâtre de l’Archevêché; but by the time the performance was interrupted...
...L’arbore di Diana (Diana’s Tree) is a satirical comedy, a political allegory, and a steamy tale of sex and transgression....
...A mighty passage of Shirley Bassey-style belting makes it clear their efforts will prove futile. The album lays claim to the Nashville archetype of the strong woman....
...Kratzer uses the stage of the Théâtre de l’Archevêché to maximum effect, with Rainer Sellmaier’s set evolving from refugee camp and government headquarters to a beachfront for the denouement....
...Her performance in the 2020 biopic Shirley, about the writer Shirley Jackson, was critically acclaimed, and this month she takes on the role of Jane Fairchild, the fearless protagonist of Mothering Sunday...
...In Dorothy L Sayers’ The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928), Lord Peter Wimsey recruits a chemist acquaintance of his to test a paint sample for poison....
...(America’s Patricia Clarkson has a brave go at upper-crust English gentry.) It’s staggeringly inept, like an am-dram in a Berlitz language class....
...L’Invisible is Aribert Reimann’s ninth opera, and his fifth for Berlin’s Deutsche Oper....
...Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms showed the Choeur de l’Orchestre de Paris — singing from memory — in a fine light, precise and supple; Harding took a muscular and emphatic view of the piece....
...Geez Louise takes us back to mid-century revival sitcoms such as Laverne & Shirley. About the only outdated term she left out was “swell”. That meant really good, a long time ago....
...The stage of the Théâtre de l’Archevêché is naked, a box with walls and floor made of white paper. For the first scene an idyllic garden is projected on to the surfaces....
...praise that makes publicists salivate: “The first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels . . . ” His high opinion of the novel was echoed by the detective fiction writer Dorothy L...
...Belgian composer Annelies Van Parys has written a short, intense prologue and epilogue, while Berlin-based Palestinian-Israeli composer Samir Odeh-Tamimi’s L’Apokalypse Arabe, a compact setting of an extract...
...In handing them a double bill of Stravinsky’s Petrushka and Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges, Komische Oper intendant Barrie Kosky is astutely tacking around the edges of the genre itself....
...“A modern Saturn, that is to say a Saturn who has become a captain of industry, continues to devour his own sons,” wrote L’Osservatore Romano after Musso’s death....
...Singer Dame Shirley Bassey performed “Diamonds Are Forever” while she wore one of the pieces....
Cavalli’s 1652 opera — the first to feature Islamic protagonists — is played with grace and refinement
...Encouraged by a few plants, the audience has entered into the spirit of Florian Gassmann’s L’Opera Seria, a 1769 opera about the opera, enough to send itself up by the start of the third act....
...I’ve been going to John for 22 years, at his flat in Notting Hill: he’s cut Michael Douglas and Shirley Bassey’s hair and I just let him decide what’s best for me....
...The overture to Chabrier’s L’étoile opened the evening with jollity, and four numbers from Massenet’s Le Cid provided welcome moments of delicacy between Mutter’s two firework displays....
...Inwardly the winner may be hugging himself and flashing imaginary “L” hand signs at the loser nominees, but outwardly all is modesty....
...Ally Executives 1 Marc Benioff , chief executive, Salesforce 2 Mark Zuckerberg , founder and chief executive, Facebook 3 Andrew Liveris , chairman and chief executive, Dow Chemical Company 4 Julie Shirley...
...It is a marvellously surreal entry into what is less a new production of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo than an installation inspired by the 1607 opera. The programme calls it a “death rehearsal”....
...As Boulez’s Dialogue de l’ombre double for clarinet and tape was broadcast across the railway forecourt and the popular space between Lake Lucerne and the culture and conference centre (KKL), it began to...
...Martin Lloyd-Evans’s production of L’amore dei tre re, Italo Montemezzi’s short, sharp shocker of 1913, was the hit of Opera Holland Park’s 2007 season....
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