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...One, a blind teenager called Marie-Laure (newcomer Aria Mia Loberti), is the town’s loudest voice of resistance (and most discreet code-sender) as the host of a nightly radio broadcast which serves as a...
...She says musical theatre has taught her about “where music meets narrative”, how to follow a character in the music, where songs or arias should fall and why. Storytelling is “paramount”....
...About one in every four companies with more than 500 employees offers non-smokers a reduced rate on their healthcare premiums, says Steven Noeldner, partner at consultancy Mercer....
...This summer it was held at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s recently acquired theatre The Other Palace, staging 10 new musicals and three concerts, including a new musical by Burt Bacharach and Steven Sater called...
...Miguel Arias Cañete, the EU climate commissioner, said it was a “sad day for the global community” but stressed that Europe would continue to implement the accord because “we are on the right side of history...
...I think what worries me most about having lunch with cellist Steven Isserlis is the possibility he might turn up with a glove puppet....
...But it also had something to do with a very Britten-esque quality that the performers — tenor Ian Bostridge, cellist Steven Isserlis and pianist Julius Drake — did their best to underline: bleakness....
...and Dance Theatre roughly matching Williams’s Boston Pops), and both have become associated with certain film directors (with Zhao characterising Zhang Yimou’s work nearly as much as Williams has defined Steven...
...One may have regretted the absence of scenic splendour, but Steven Tharp’s semi-staging was a definite plus, not least in its deployment of the chorus, which shoulders multiple functions....
...Steven Harrison’s Florestan is no towering presence but handles his aria confidently....
...Steven LaBrie and Karin Mushegain perform gamely as Araspe and Alessandro. The conductor Christian Curnyn lends his name to this perversion....
...Steven Page’s Mittenhofer dominates the stage: charismatic creative type, manipulative child, abusive bully all in one....
...On the Waterfront Nottingham Playhouse After a review I wrote a few years ago, Steven Berkoff informed me that I was “banned”, but since his letter never specified by whom or from what, I’ve continued to...
...Chang’s entrance aria, which should exude malice, sounds too much like a jolly Sullivan patter song....
...As for Beczala’s Act Two aria, it’s baffling how a Lensky of such sweet timbre and elegant vocal address should fail to stir the audience....
...Steven Page’s Coyle is one of the best things he has done, and Vivian Tierney makes us really believe in the doughty Miss Wingrave – a mesmerising performance....
...Oscar Arias, winner of the Nobel peace prize, is running on a centre-right platform. Ottón Solís, his main opponent, has a firm leftwing agenda....
...Steven Young, the new director of the American Institute in Taiwan – the de-facto embassy in Taipei – said at a lunch: “We oppose Taiwan independence.”...
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