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Date : Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:18:09 PST Arda Mandikian Arda Mandikian, the Greek soprano, who died on November 8 aged 85, was a great favourite of Benjamin Britten and created the role of Miss Jessel, the ghostly former governess in Turn of the Screw; but her international singing career came to a premature end in the 1960s after she spoke out ...

Arda Mandikian, left, as the ghost, with Jennifer Vyvyan as the governess, in the English Opera Group's production of Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw, 1954 Photograph: Denis De Marney/Hulton Archive The Greek soprano Arda Mandikian, who has died aged 85, was a powerful presence on stage or concert platform, appearing to be much taller than ...

Date : Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:31:49 +0400 ARDA MANDIKIAN: SOPRANO CHAMPIONED BY BENJAMIN BRITTEN The Times/uk November 17, 2009 Arda Mandikian, left, as the ghost of Miss Jessel with Jennifer Vyvyan in Benjamin Britten's The Turn of the Screw A singer whose repertoire ranges, with authority, over more than 2,000 years is likely to be unusual.

One of the most notable formal features of Alan Bennett 's new play for the National Theatre, The Habit of Art , is its play-within-a-play. The action is set within a rehearsal room.

Benjamin Britten was less of a presence than usual at this year's Aldeburgh festival, but lovers of his music could find consolation in a series of Britten song cycles in Blythburgh church, masterminded by the accompanist Malcolm Martineau.

London, The Habit Of Art Henry Hitchings's rating Dir: Nicholas Hytner. Cast: Stephen Wright, Elliot Levey, John Hefferman, Danny Burns, Philip Childs, Alex Jennings, Frances de la Tour, Adrian Scarborough, Martin Chamberlain, Richard Griffiths, Barbara Kirby Description: A comedy-drama by Alan Bennett, exploring the relationship between Benjamin ...

Richard Griffiths as Fitz and Alex Jennings as Henry in Alan Bennett's 'The Habit of Art.' A National Theater presentation of a play in two acts by Alan Bennett.

The show has suddenly become quite wonderful, and the galvanising factor is the terrific stage debut of Melanie C Blood Brothers John Aizlewood The British pop music industry may be eating itself but if Muse are the pick of what it can offer the world in 2010 then British music is in rude health indeed Muse Rachel Dalziel I was smitten by both ...

The structure is certainly complex. We are watching a rehearsal, in the National Theatre itself, of a play called Caliban's Day: one that, inspired by Auden's The Sea and the Mirror, gives voice to the unregarded.

Don't panic. Not the late Alan Bennett but late Alan Bennett a ' thankfully a different thing.

The world premiere of Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art opens at the National's Lyttelton Theatre Nov.

Two of the city's leading performance organizations for young artists - the Tulsa Youth Opera and the Tulsa Youth Symphony - join forces for a special performance of Benjamin Britten's one-act about the biblical story of Noah and the ark.

7 3:01 Joachim Raff: Symphony No. 3: 4th movement 3:06 Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso No.

7 3:01 Joachim Raff: Symphony No. 3: 4th movement 3:06 Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso No.

The Estes Park Music Festival will present an exciting new addition to the Music Festival Winter Series featuring Jerilyn Jorgenson, violinist and Cullan Bryant on piano.

Hard to believe, but the tenor Philip Langridge reaches 70 next month. He gave advance notice of the event with a birthday recital, accompanied by David Owen Norris and the Doric Quartet, that attempted the almost impossible: to sum up in two hours a career that has perhaps been more varied than that of any other British singer of our time.

Britten: The Beggar's Opera, review Soloists, City of London Sinfonia, cond Christian Curnyn.

John Adams: "Nixon in China"; Robert Orth, Maria Kanyova and others, with Opera Colorado Chorus and the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop .

A taut, angry production on the composer's home turf finds thrills aplenty still in an adaptation of James's ghost story Reviewed by Anna Picard The "soft, thick light" described in Old Suffolk, Henry James's memoir of his 1879 journey to Aldeburgh and seeing the submerged skyline of medieval Dunwich, hung low over Snape last weekend.

WH Auden is best-known as the craggy-faced genius who wrote such beloved poems as Funeral Blues, with its famous opening: "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,/ Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,/ Silence the pianos and with muffled drum/ Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come." But for Alan Bennett , the poet was ...