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...Thea Musgrave’s 1977 opera, Mary, Queen of Scots, focuses on her journey to self-determination and its disastrous outcome....
...The Dutch are lighter on their feet, more ethereal in their sound-world, less colossally self-assured. Under Fischer’s direction, there was a kind of modesty to their Mahler....
...She is haunted by the death outside the theatre of a 17-year-old fan, who becomes blurred in her mind with her own younger self, and starts to unravel, finally turning up drunk for the opening night....
...Shirley Collins suffered this scenario in real life....
...Beate Mordal and Cameron Shahbazi are self-satisfied and creepy in their two scenes as lovers and celebrities....
...Shirley-Anne Somerville, Scotland’s social justice secretary, said London’s decision to challenge the legislation showed that “devolution is fundamentally flawed”....
...Certainly his Così fan tutte echoes its catastrophic sense of a deadly game, the bitter consequences of what can happen when civilised self-doubt meets elemental bloodlust....
...Few contemporary artists could match this — but step into Kew’s Shirley Sherwood Gallery and Mat Collishaw’s “Albion” immerses you in a silvery moonlit forest where a near-life-sized negative of a tree is...
...Letter in response to this article: I’m for digital tax returns, but not quarterly reporting / From PE Shirley, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, Ireland...
...Shirley-Anne Somerville, Scotland’s social justice secretary, said on Wednesday that Holyrood would seek a judicial review of the veto....
...Diana is an uptight teacher, her nymphs are the cleaning ladies, the oversexed watchmen are pupils and Amor is the genderfluid ringleader, a male body in female clothing, seductive and self-assured, turning...
...Up on Shirley Heights, the air is really crisp. It’s where I can celebrate myself....
...Shirley-Anne Somerville, social justice secretary in the Scottish National party-led government in Edinburgh, warned on Wednesday that the veto by London risked “setting a dangerous constitutional precedent...
...It’s to unlock things we couldn’t do previously,” says Shirley Meng, battery professor at the University of Chicago....
...Pene Pati’s impetuous, self-absorbed Aménophis is a tour-de-force. The choir and orchestra of the Opéra de Lyon are on top form....
...alliances As for China, it is now well understood in Africa that countries lacking the fiscal capacity and growth potential to service loans from Beijing risk falling into a chronic “financing curse”, as Shirley...
...Cara has the same athletic confidence and self-possession – I think she’s the epitome of modern glam. @jellison22...
...Often the tone is more Shirley Valentine than Scheherazade, one of Alithea’s wishes a simple sip of tea....
...“I’m not building up anything now, so I’m enjoying spending money,” she says, without any trace of self-consciousness. What else is she spending it on, I ask?...
...Netia Jones’s new production of Le nozze di Figaro (Palais Garnier) tries to walk the fine line between theatre and reality, in a self-reflecting mise en abyme that often loses its way....
...Shirley Chisholm famously said, “I’ve been black, I’ve been female . . .”...
...With a handful of star stage directors now sharing the bulk of Europe’s major premieres, it is little wonder that many of them are reduced to vacuous self-reference....
...Herheim seems lost for inspiration, reduced to self-quotations and empty gestures. Nor can Runnicles save the evening....
...Her own oeuvre features cannibalism, necrophilia, self-immolation, murders and dismemberment....
...And so Neither belongs to the ever-growing canon of anti-operas, stubbornly non-narrative in its abstraction and consequently, like most non-narrative works of music theatre, static, self-referential and...
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