Der Rosenkavalier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Eugene Onegin ★ ★ ★ ☆☆ Garsington Opera started life in the grounds of a 17th-century Oxfordshire manor house owned by an opera lover, but the company was sent into exile when his descendants decided they wanted to enjoy their home without sharing it with the public; they were also sick of dealing …
Christa Ludwig, a renowned interpreter of Wagner, Mozart and Strauss who starred on the world’s great stages for four decades, died at her home in Klosterneuburg, Austria. A mezzo-soprano who also succeeded in soprano roles, Ludwig made her Vienna State Opera debut as Cherubino in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro on 14 April, 1955, when the company was temporarily in …
She has been hit with rumours of an engagement with Robert Pattinson. Happy couple: The model and actor cosied up during the dinner with Robert draping an arm around Suki's chair and her proudly showing off a gold band on her finger Looking good: Twilight star Robert cut a casual figure in a black leather jacket while Suki put on …
The idea of politics as a vocation might strike some people these days as strange, if not preposterous. “No philosophical discourse,” he said, “is so fine that it deserves to be set above the public law and customs of a well-ordered state.” That, he told his son, is why a life of public service is “the course that has always …
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