Margaret Tynes, soprano who struggled to square her faith with ‘sex kitten’ opera roles – obituary
Duke Ellington heard her as Lady Macbeth and telephoned to introduce himself. ‘Yeah, and I’m the president of the United States,’ she said
Duke Ellington heard her as Lady Macbeth and telephoned to introduce himself. ‘Yeah, and I’m the president of the United States,’ she said
‘I have a strongly ambivalent attitude towards authority… my basic tendency is to sabotage it, and satire is my favourite literary genre’
She looked back on her career with some regret, saying: ‘Every movie role I was ever offered that had any real quality went to someone else’
Critics adored her gritty 1960 debut about a single mother: ‘she can suggest all the indignity of being sick in the Tube in half a sentence’
Adie had great analytical gifts and when introducing the legislation in the General Synod showed the skill of an experienced advocate
They met at a variety show, and for Eric it was love at first sight: ‘He was very persistent but I took a little time to agree’
She refused to conform to political pieties, finding both developed and developing world ‘each ... as savage and implacable as the other’
As a lecturer at the International Maritime Law Institute, he enthralled his audiences with colourful lessons about the law in action
Olivier chose The Party as his last National Theatre stage role and another Griffiths hit, Comedians, was Jonathan Pryce’s breakthrough
His thoroughness with his students gave rise to the joke ‘that Igor Ozim could even teach a monkey to play the violin excellently’
‘Strong-willed, single-minded and explosive’, he later admitted his regret about demanding a transfer from Liverpool in 1974
Born into a princely family in British India, he shot a tiger aged nine and became a diplomat and chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board
She fought the assumption that Holocaust survivors were damaged beyond repair, ‘hopeless and helpless, a group of people to be written off’
As he slithered into a heavily greased torpedo tube, he saw Moore standing over him, grinning, and pointing his finger at the firing button
A singer and actress, she toured American bases with the Marx Brothers during the war and later claimed to be a viscountess
He founded Camden Opera Group, conducted the UK premiere of Bernstein’s controversial Mass and once appeared on stage in Dick Whittington
He won a fan following for his role in the horsey series and went on to record hundreds of audiobooks
He fell out with his party over Iraq and endorsed John McCain over Barack Obama
His bestselling book Thinking, Fast and Slow explored the ‘systematic errors in thinking’ that we are all liable to make
Pierre Boulez conducted his irreverent oratorio Arena, based on the East End music-hall theatre of his childhood