Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

AK sang Susanna in Mozart 's The Marriage of Figaro in London.

As a student she sang in the Oxford Bach Choir . Mozart was then unfashionable, and Kennedy boldly defended him against the prejudice of the choir's director.

In the years between the 1926 staging of The Constant Nymph and the appearance of Escape Me Never!, MK co-wrote with Basil Dean the play Come With Me (1934), and adapted Charles Dickens 's...

Violet also had several German and Swiss governesses. Marie Krebs Schülpbach , who taught her at Thun in Switzerland when Violet stayed there in 1866-9, was especially influential: they read theGrimms , Goethe ...

The author chose as her narrator and central subject a Roman coin stamped with the image of the emperor Hadrian , which is possessed by a series of characters including a gladiator, Renaissance artist Guido Reni

All the characters are fond of aphorisms (from Anne we get Bitterness is wanton, like showing the hangman the gauge of your neck . . . . It also comes easily to lazy sentimentalists

O'Brien , however, was overall dissatisfied with Jazz. She felt something was lacking, and missed the emotional nexus, the moment shorn of all artifice that brings us headlong into the deepest recesses of feeling...

Peter Hall , its first director, likened the play to Mozart 's music for its precision, lyricism, and sudden descents into pain which are quickly over because of a healthy sense of the ridiculous.Samuel Beckett

She lists her interests as language, history, northern landscapes . . . snooker, mortality, cyberspace, and especially people. In another place this list appears reshuffled, stretched to include beautiful men and music from Mozart to...

AR published an English translation of Mozart 's opera Cosi fan tutte.

AR 's earliest translations were from Italian, of Dante and Eugenio Montale . She first thought of translating a libretto for performance when she was asked to do so by Jane Glover , who later...

After the death of a beloved grand-daughter, GS travelled with Manceau through Italy where she collected material for the novels Flavie, Constance Verrier, and a historical novel, Les beaux messieurs de Bois-Doré...

Apple Bough, 1962 (illustrated by Margery Gill , published as Traveling Shoes in the USA), is remarkable from a feminist point of view for the name of the youngest child in the central family...

Most famous and beloved of all the contents of these books is undoubtedly Jane's The Star, better known as Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, sometimes classed as a nursery rhyme, which first appeared in...

STW published her fifth and least-known novel, After the Death of Don Juan, a story related to but differing widely from Mozart 's opera Don Giovanni.