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...Reid writes well for voices, or the singers turn her vocal writing into a triumph — either way, the cast is superb, and each aria is a tour de force, from Jasmin White’s authoritative Historian and Anthony...
...Krzysztof Warlikowski’s Salzburg Festival production of Verdi’s Macbeth opens with a black and white film of a woman abandoning her baby in a field....
...Instead, he stays within the boundaries of the establishment, a world of carbon copies of past successes, a world run by white men....
...That the Count is a murderer and a rapist would probably have been clear without the addition of a blood-smeared chorus of white-clad girls, but Kušej wouldn’t be Kušej without a bit of extra gore....
...For this production, Freitas embraces the sterile modernity of Halle E in Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier, using its featureless white podium to create a strangely futuristic, abstract space, peopled by robotic...
...She was joined in oblivion by Shirley Jaffe, whose untitled 1954 canvas looks like a city seen through a break in the clouds by a myopic bird....
...In both the UK and the US, the term “precious coral” — the mostly red, pink, and rarer white coral used in fine jewellery — is marred by confusion....
...We see leftover chunks of Grecian statuary, chorus members rugged up in off-white outdoor wear, and the steady fall of fake snowflakes....
...The walls are white for the first act, black for the second. A gap opens in the rear wall to reveal a fantasy space filled with stage smoke and dancer doubles. Why does anybody do this?...
...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...
...Even Shirley Jackson’s jelly-cellar, in We Have Always Lived in the Castle, is deeply appealing though we know the pickles and preserves are steeped in death, disarray and mystery....
...Additional reporting by Edward White in Seoul and Ryan McMorrow in San Francisco...
...There is no swan, and the entire cast wears skinny jeans and unflattering sweaters in shades of cream and white....
...Up on Shirley Heights, the air is really crisp. It’s where I can celebrate myself....
...George Shirley among them....
...The entire interior of the Komische Oper has been swathed in white. Netting hangs from the ceiling and over the sides of the circles....
...Her horse, Grane, is a plastic My Little Pony with a red mane; the Waldvogel (wood-bird) seems to have come from the same branch of Toys “R” Us, and is wielded by one of Wotan’s many white-coated underlings...
...Sadly, they sat sepulchred in their snow-white shoebox for months, too lovely to spoil in the outside world, so I sold them on Vestiaire Collective....
...“They were a white boy band. I wasn’t that interested in that music.” The Beatles chose a third of the heads, Blake and Haworth the rest....
...Outside, the light is fading; suddenly, a white horse gallops through the rear doors and holds the stage, exploring the mounds of sand, gazing with curiosity at the audience....
...She came across the song when a search for Shirley Collins’s “Hares on the Mountain” sent her down a YouTube rabbit hole....
...While white personnel were largely billeted in Margate and Broadstairs, African-American soldiers were consigned to Ramsgate along the coast....
...“I just knew of it as the place where Shirley Bassey was born. But I did some preliminary research, and I was hooked. It just felt right....
...We’ve also followed food writer Emiko Davies on the annual white-truffle hunt that takes place around her husband’s hometown of San Miniato....
...London On Tuesday this week, Dame Shirley Bassey — the only singer to record three James Bond theme songs — will take to the stage of the Royal Albert Hall for a special concert marking the 60th anniversary...
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