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...Victoria Nuland, acting US deputy secretary of state, had travelled to Niger’s capital Niamey to warn the junta that US aid would be cut off it democratic order were not restored....
...As an encore, he and his Munich musicians offered the prelude to act three of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, deep-toned, eloquent and a fine tribute to the city where the opera had its premiere...
...As acting deputy secretary of state, Victoria Nuland, found out on August 7 in Niamey, trying to negotiate a return to constitutional order with a brigadier general and three colonels is not an enviable...
...Hong Kong Flower Show, Victoria Park The theme of this year’s show is “Floral Joy Around Town”, with the angelonia (Angel Flower) as the star bloom....
...August 17-20, greenman.net All Points East, UK With a diverse range of genres, this east London rager offers something for everyone across two weekends in Victoria Park....
...When we meet, barely a week has passed since the abortive rebellion by Wagner warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin — and so I am also curious to ask whether, given the fascist swerve of Russian society that Snyder...
...The palace opens up 19 majestic rooms as well as the perfectly manicured gardens. 11 July to 29 September; further information here August Festivals All Points East, Victoria Park The east London music...
...When the de-occupation of the Kharkiv region began, the diary was literally unearthed by Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina....
...Who could have guessed two weeks ago that footage of a man gaily entering the Victoria and Albert Museum could look so poignant?...
...Radicalism, both musical and otherwise, haunted Wagner’s Tannhäuser (“Personal struggle! Morality!”)...
...Opera’s role as “the soundtrack to the history of Europe” will be the subject of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s big autumn exhibition, in its first ever partnership with the Royal Opera House....
...“Of course, you have to know the different styles, whether it is between Mozart and Wagner, or between Jerry Herman and Gershwin — but yes, it is the same job.”...
...And then I remember the English National Opera was doing groundbreaking productions of Wagner.”...
...Photographs: Victoria Birkinshaw...
...You would have to present it as a time-lapse evolution saga: something dark, stirring and momentous, possibly set to Wagner. Both on screen and in history London has had the same story....
...Friedelind Wagner: Richard Wagner’s Rebellious Granddaughter, by Eva Rieger, translated by Chris Walton, Boydell Press, RRP£30 While her brothers Wieland and Wolfgang served the Nazis and hoarded the “gold...
...Move to Victoria in Australia and be a surf bum. Do you believe in assisted suicide? Yes. Do you believe in an afterlife? No. I’m an atheist....
...For Jane Pritchard, curator of the theatre and performance department at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the costumes play a crucial role....
...MelbourneRon Mueck From Friday, the National Gallery of Victoria presents a major exhibition of work by the Melbourne-born sculptor Ron Mueck....
...Germany Bayreuth Festival The first Bayreuth festival under the new joint directorship of the Wagner half-sisters, Eva Wagner-Pasquier and Katharina Wagner, opens on July 25....
...and the Centrality of Love , by Barry Emslie, The Boydell Press RRP£50 This opinionated study brings fresh air to the Wagner debate....
...programme features drumming workshops, chamber music from The Maggini Quartet and an ongoing exhibition Rock Music Rock Art, a multimedia project inspired by the ancient rock gongs of Lolui Island in Lake Victoria...
...This scenario assumes very slow growth, if not recessionary economic conditions,” said Standard & Poor’s credit analyst Victoria Wagner....
...Wagner, analyst at Standard & Poor’s....
...Schubert, Liszt, Mendelssohn spent summers here; Wagner nearly chose Baden-Baden over Bayreuth....
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