Hints and tips:
...But a brand new opera in which the title figure serves only to sing of her love for the man before being brutally murdered — really?...
...This was a weighty yet exhilarating way to welcome a new year that will need all the love it can get. ★★★★★ berliner-philharmoniker.de...
...People come to me and say, ‘Oh, I love your energy!’ But it’s not just about energy . . . it also has to be meaningful. You need to be able to bring out the best in people, to motivate and inspire.”...
...It took longer than anticipated for the works to receive their first performance, but time has made the ancient Greek themes of love, loss, sacrifice and regret more relevant than ever....
...Sellars depends on an emotional buy-in from the viewers to his spiritually elevated narrative about love, or its absence, and society....
...While declaring his love to Aida, he shoots them dead, one by one. How on earth did Bieito plan to magic all those corpses from the stage?...
...In a programme book interview, Aperghis declares that he loves fragments, and the evening is certainly fragmentary....
...When Lea Desandre’s Cherubino sings, the Countess and Susanna fall in love with the sheer beauty of sound; so do we....
...breathtaking strength, refinement and rhetorical force; Derek Welton’s Amfortas looks fragile but sounds robust, wise, and authoritative; Georg Zeppenfeld’s Gurnemanz is spellbinding, every word shaped with love...
...Folk music loves an unhappy ending. Shirley Collins suffered this scenario in real life....
...Singers and dancers are seamlessly integrated, all characters in a merciless world of alienation, where passion, love, intrigue, murder and abuse are narrated or noted rather than acted out....
...Jean-François Marmontel’s libretto tells the familiar tale of a prince turned into a monster by an evil enchantress, rescued by the pure love of his young bride....
...They were a fixture in the wardrobes of young boys and girls (see Shirley Temple and, later, a young John F Kennedy Jr)....
...These are two completely different forms of despair, McBurney’s steeped in primal love for its unfortunate characters, Tcherniakov’s bathed in sharply observed cynicism....
...All Benjamin’s operas — after Into The Little Hill came the mesmerising Written on Skin, followed by the harsher, more political Lessons in Love and Violence — open abruptly....
...I speed-read often, a hazard of the profession — but with books I love, or which strike some nerve or chord, I almost always go back over a period of days or months....
...“I am very eager to share information about coral and love the way that it is regulated and so beautiful, historical and biogenic,” says Grosz....
...“I love that I have that memory from the last match of his career.” cromlix.com....
...A macabre atmosphere haunts these “long short” stories: a sense of menace combined with a humour reminiscent of Shirley Jackson or Patricia Highsmith....
...Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life by Brigitta Olubas, Virago £25/Farrar Straus & Giroux $35, 576 pages...
...Up on Shirley Heights, the air is really crisp. It’s where I can celebrate myself....
...Shirley Bassey turned her 1972 hit “Grande, Grande, Grande” into “Never, Never, Never”....
...Where Collins’s voice rises optimistically at the line “Why shouldn’t my love love me?”, Peat’s vocal goes in the opposite direction....
...There is neither love potion nor truth serum to account for Siegfried’s infidelity and confession. However, there are murders....
...(Moss still loves the style, and wears Repetto’s black patent iteration on repeat.)...
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