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...“This is entirely grotesque,” Tegut management board member Thomas Stäb told the Financial Times....
...The Royal Opera has spent the best part of 40 years searching for a successful production of Verdi’s Il trovatore....
...As well as the department store in London, the Selfridges Group includes retailers De Bijenkorf in the Netherlands, as well as Brown Thomas and Arnotts in Ireland....
...Cio-Cio-San will be sung alternately by sopranos Karah Son (who studied under the late Mirella Freni) and Gisela Stille; countertenors Evan LeRoy Johnson and Thomas Atkins play the caddish Pinkerton....
...Thomas Ogilvie, head of human resources at Deutsche Post, said the deal “went beyond our financial pain threshold”, pointing out the company had “hardly any leeway for price increases” owing to regulation...
...The new cast is an improvement, although when I went, Russell Thomas was replaced in the title role by Rafael Davila, who performed respectably....
...Even in sacred music Verdi was a red-blooded composer, not a cool-headed northern European....
...Although Verdi’s opera is less about race than Shakespeare’s play (there is much about religion instead), African-American tenor Russell Thomas creates a striking impact....
...The June performances of Ballo mark the fifth Verdi opera the Chicago Symphony has presented in concert....
...There is a nicely sung duo of young lovers, Alexandra Oomens and Elgan Llŷr Thomas, and a sturdy showing in the ranks from Henry Waddington and Marcus Farnsworth....
...The work in question is a new clarinet quintet entitled Alchymia, Thomas Adès the composer, Mark Simpson the clarinet....
...Next year’s programme features a new violin concerto by a more mainstream contemporary figure, Thomas Adès, who is writing for star soloist Anne-Sophie Mutter....
...Paeans to its loveliness have flowed from the pens of Mary Shelley and Stendhal; it has inspired Liszt and Wagner; Verdi wrote La traviata on its shores....
...The celebrated engineer Thomas Telford was hired to push a new route up the hill to the town centre’s many inns....
...For the past three weeks Gustavo Dudamel has been sitting in a Plexiglas box conducting Verdi’s Il trovatore at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu....
...“The programme will be all Monteverdi,” says Robert Hollingworth, founder of I Fagiolini, looking out over the Minster in York, where he teaches at the city’s university....
...Even in his 80s, Zeffirelli remained active, returning in triumph to La Scala in 2006 with Verdi’s Aida, one of the most spectacular productions in the history of the Italian lyric theatre....
...It could be a long haul and there will be failures at the start, but even Verdi and Wagner had to start somewhere....
...In 1900 Verdi was still alive in the former, Tomasi di Lampedusa (The Leopard) already growing up in the latter....
...Domingo, Netrebko, Barenboim and Verdi — great opera gets no greater, right? Wrong....
..., from Mozart to Thomas Adès, via Puccini, Berg and Virgil Thomson, to mention but a few, all wildly different stylistically but still within the same tradition....
...Mindful of those who may never have entered an art museum, the British architect Thomas Heatherwick has devised a spectacular lure. The silo, once a hub for exporting maize, was abandoned in 2001....
...Verdi, the services sector trade union, called for as many jobs as possible to be saved and for labour representatives to be involved in the talks....
...Even the Verdi Requiem is a squash and a squeeze”....
...La Battaglia di Legnano may not have shown Verdi or the company in the best light — final events also included a fine Aida, a Verdi conference and heartwarming festive concerts — but its unprecedented Verdi...
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