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...Davy van Gerven’s stark white set placed the orchestra (members of the Concertgebouw, its academy and alumni) centre stage, while the Roelofsen siblings moved the singers around, through and above the orchestra...
...And, as with her superb performance in Shirley Valentine last year, she brings great wit, infectious warmth and aching vulnerability to Myrtle, giving meaning to the tiniest purse of the lips or sideways...
...Reinoud Van Mechelen’s Jason carries himself with easy arrogance and sings with sky-blue purity in upper registers that seem to have no limits....
...Under the weight of this orchestral supremacy, the singers become almost incidental, but the cast is strong: Clay Hilley growing into the uncomfortable heights of his role as Kaiser, Elza van der Heever...
...As we walk through the historic centre of Antwerp to the diamond bourse, I cannot rid my mind of Dame Shirley Bassey bawling out “diamonds are forevaaaah”....
...Up on Shirley Heights, the air is really crisp. It’s where I can celebrate myself....
...Johanni van Oostrum matches his solidity with a marvellously youthful Elsa....
...Eva-Maria Van Acker’s costumes are a mishmash of baroque bustles with modern hoodies and sports shoes, Thilo Ullrich’s sets a clever glimpse into the inner workings of baroque stage mechanics....
...The vans with the bodies leave; the workers leave. On the empty stage, rain falls. That is all. Castelluci has given us the most senseless kind of death there is....
...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...
...Jan van den Akker, one of the OECD report’s authors, said the last three years of Scottish secondary education were not “in line” with CfE goals....
...When the coronavirus pandemic hit the UK, breast cancer survivor Shirley Cochrane was left high and dry....
...The one artist whose work I would collect if I could is Vincent van Gogh – and specifically, Starry Night....
...Eduard van Voorst Financial consultant, Hong Kong...
...Nina van Essen, in what is, remarkably, her role debut as Rosina, makes the part sound as if it was written for her, with clarity, wit, lyricism and charm....
...Alban Ho Van’s sets and Wojciech Dziedzic’s costumes aestheticise the grungy narrative to within an inch of its life, giving us sex slaves who live decorative lives in glass cases and refugees whose emergency...
...Shirley Haywood disappeared over a hill when her companion was ordered back to the starting point after losing her pack horse....
...The van, now topped by a Joseph Beuys bunny, is driven by Wagner’s Venus, dressed as a member of Pussy Riot; with her are Oskar from Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum, the black drag queen Le Gateau Chocolat,...
...That is not the case with the Stadttheater Giessen’s first ever world premiere, Richard van Schoor’s Alp Arslan....
...Darren Shirley, chief executive of the Campaign for Better Transport, said the plans were “overdue” and he expected they would lead to a “dramatic improvement in air quality” in the city....
...Voorst, Financial consultant, Hong Kong...
...Frankenstein performs depressingly poorly on the Bechdel test, with Justine (Hendrickje van Kerckhove) making a fleeting appearance in a cage before being unjustly hanged, and Elizabeth (Eleonore Marguerre...
...Singers Aude Extrémo and Christian Van Horn bring multitasking to a new level, playing hard while singing gloriously....
...Van Parys’s music does this effortlessly....
...Both Reinoud Van Mechelen as Hippolyte and Gyula Orendt as Thésée sang nobly, and Elsa Dreisig’s Diana had presence, but, along with their colleagues, they sounded as if they were fighting a losing battle...
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