There has been a noticeable increase in the quality of the operatic programme in recent years, after decades when, according to critic Rupert Christiansen, the festival featured " work of such mediocre quality that I just longed for someone to put it out of its misery.

Rupert set about recruiting and training: with great effort he had put together a partially trained mounted force of 3, 000 cavalry by the end of September.

The following year, Rupert was made joint commander of the fleet with Monk and given the opportunity to put this plan into practice.

Rupert played a key part in the conferences held by the Duke of York in 1665 to review tactics and operational methods from the first Dutch war, and put these into practice before the St James Day battle.

A subsequent agreement in April 2004 put an end to all litigation between the two parties and opened the way to a joint environmental assessment of the projected diversion of the Rupert River, to the south of the Eastmain River.

On the 30 May, Ratko Mladić phoned Rupert Smith and agreed not to put hostage Blue Helmets in chains, but to merely " bring " them on strategic sites.

The novel was put out by HarperCollins, a major publishing company owned by Rupert Murdoch, and though the book was successful, Munroe so disliked the experience that he launched No Media Kings as a venue for publishing and promoting his own works independently, and a guide to self-publishing for other prospective writers.

In 1986, Barry Diller, Jamie Kellner and Rupert Murdoch tapped the then 28-year-old Ancier to be the founding Entertainment President for the new Fox Broadcasting Company, where he put 21 Jump Street, Married with Children, The Simpsons and In Living Color on the air.

Wodehouse said that he based Psmith on Rupert D ' Oyly Carte ( 1876 – 1948 ), the son of the Gilbert and Sullivan impresario Richard D ' Oyly Carte, as he put it " the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a silver plate with watercress around it ".

Colonel Richard Deane's initial attempts to cross the Powick Bridge ( where Prince Rupert of the Rhine had won the Battle of Powick Bridge his first victory in 1642 ) failed against stubborn resistance by the Royalists ( many of whom were battle-hardened Scottish Highlanders ) commanded by Colonel Keith.

In August 1642, Rupert, along with his brother Prince Maurice and a number of professional soldiers, ran the gauntlet across the sea from the United Provinces, and after one initial failure, evaded the pro-Parliamentary navy and landed in Newcastle.

Earlier interpretations of this event focused on Rupert's concern for his honour in the face of his initial dismissal by the King ; later works have highlighted the practical importance of the courts martial to Rupert's future employability as a mercenary in Europe, given that Rupert knew that the war by this point was effectively lost.

With an initial grant of 1. 2 million Rand ( US $ 260, 000 ) from the Rupert Nature Foundation, the Peace Parks Foundation was established on 1 February 1997 in order to facilitate the establishment of TFCAs in southern Africa.

With these acts charting highly brought Mushroom to the front stage of music in the UK, with an initial £ 5, 000 turnover increasing to £ 23m over its 10 years, however Marshall began to extricate Mushroom UK from the Mushroom family during 2001, after the parent company had been sold in 1999 to Rupert Murdoch's Newscorp, and merged with his Festival Records to form Festival Mushroom Records.

Among many alumni who have followed in Washington's footsteps by donating generously, Rupert Johnson, Jr., a 1962 graduate who is vice chairman of the $ 600-billion Franklin Templeton investment management firm, gave $ 100 million to Washington and Lee in June 2007, establishing a merit-based financial aid and curriculum enrichment program.

He also spearheaded a large federal investment in the Prince Rupert container terminal, saying that it improved ties to Asian markets, while enhancing economic development in northern BC and Alberta.

A momentous shift in the sport, triggered by significant investment from Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation brought about the formation of the Super League and a switch to summer rugby.

In 1986, Rupert Murdoch's News International built a new £ 80m printing and publishing works in the north of Wapping.

To make matters worse, Charles Louis had been deprived of half the old Palatinate under the Peace of Westphalia, leaving him badly short of money, although he still remained responsible under the Imperial laws of apanage for providing for his younger brother and had offered the sum of £ 375 per annum, which Rupert had accepted.

Rupert travelled on to Vienna, where he attempted to claim the £ 15, 000 compensation allocated to him under the Peace of Westphalia from the Emperor.

In the early days the channel operated on a £ 40 million budget ( plus £ 10 million share of overheads ), which led Sam Chisholm to propose to Murdoch the station be closed, but Rupert was " pleased with its achievements ... there were overriding reasons of prestige and politics for keeping it ... the final hurdle of the Broadcasting Bill had still to be overcome and the case for the acceptability of Sky would collapse if suddenly there was no news channel.

After a successful legal campaign against HarperCollins, Patten went on to publish the book in the UK in September 1998 after accepting a sum of £ 500, 000 and receiving an apology from Rupert Murdoch.

It would be Rupert Murdoch, who described cable and satellite television as being " the most important single advance since Caxton invented the printing press " and saw it as the ideal way into making his definitive breakthrough into the British television industry, who would buy the shares ( through his News International conglomerate ) for the symbolic price of £ 1 plus outstanding debts.

Rupert Hambro, Matthew Freud, and Joel Cadbury ( the son of Peter Cadbury ) bought the club for £ 11. 8 million in 2001.

The dispute was resolved when the chairman, Rupert Lowe, declared new plans for the club to move to a new 32, 000-seat stadium, for a cost of £ 32 million, on Brittania Road on the banks of the River Itchen.

This led to a drawn-out battle of words between chairman Rupert Lowe and the Tottenham board, which ended when Spurs paid £ 8. 1 million to persuade Lowe to release Richards from his contract which he had only signed a few months earlier.

The club has been subject to takeover proposals by Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB with Edwards reportedly agreeing to sell his stake for £ 98 million.

In the 1998 – 99 he had accepted a £ 623million bid from Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB corporation to take over Manchester United, but the takeover was cancelled after the Mergers and Monopolies Commission blocked it.

On the next day the same four electors met at Rhens to ballot for Rupert as next German king, thus the majority of the college including the Elector Palatine's own vote.

Soon afterwards Rupert Murdoch's Times followed suit and introduced its own tabloid version.

Rupert deployed the army to its right, where the ground appeared to be more favourable for his own cavalry and prepared for battle.

After the war, Hart-Davis was unable to obtain satisfactory terms from Jonathan Cape to return to the company, and in 1946 he struck out on his own, founding Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd, in partnership with David Garnett and Teddy Young and with financial backing from Eric Linklater, Arthur Ransome, H. E. Bates, Geoffrey Keynes, and Celia and Peter Fleming.

Rupert did, however, became a noted artist in mezzotint in his own right.

Rupert acquired his own apartments in the castle, which were recorded as being " very singular " with some decorated with an " extraordinary " number of " pikes, muskets, pistols, bandoliers, holsters, drums, back, breast, and head pieces ", and his inner chambers " hung with tapisserie, curious and effeminate pictures ".

In 1673, Rupert was urged by Charles Louis to return home, marry and establish an heir to the Palatinate, as it appeared likely that Charles Louis's own son would not survive infancy.

The English fleet had been much expanded, and Rupert had three ships,, and, equipped with a high-specification, annealed and lathe-produced gun of his own design, the Rupertinoe.

Rupert halted his own cavalry at Chalgrove to ambush the pursuit and allow 800 less mobile troops to escape.

On 8 July 1988 Rival tycoon Rupert Murdoch, having failed to gain regulatory approval for his own satellite service, and failing to become part of the BSB consortium announced that his pan-European television station, Sky Channel, would be relaunched as a four channel UK-based service called Sky Television, using the Astra system and broadcast in PAL with analogue sound.

Similarly, Rupert Murdoch is said to have regretted missing the opportunity of launching his own London paper.

The affair attracted national press attention when Mrs Mayo's husband, the barrister Rupert Mayo, wrote to a local newspaper, the Wiltshire Gazette and Herald, " The irony is that I will not reap the benefits of Mr Cameron's excellent family-based policy proposals because one of his own MPs has ripped my own family apart.

He is portrayed-although he does not do the voice for his own character-in the 2007 Family Guy episode Road to Rupert as representing the ' cool side of the pillow '

During the period where the tribes had been absorbed, an alliance between Rob M. and Amber ( who had formed their own alliance early in the game ) and Rupert and Jenna L. formed, which would stay strong until the final four.

Maurice Rupert Bishop ( 29 May 1944 – 19 October 1983 ) was a Grenadian politician and revolutionary who seized power in a coup in 1979 from Eric Gairy and served as Prime Minister of the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada until 1983, when he was overthrown in another coup by Bernard Coard, a member of his own government, and executed.

On 11 July 2011, Dyke wrote in the Financial Times that " from the moment it was revealed that the News of the World had hacked into Milly Dowler's phone, Rupert Murdoch's bid to buy the 60. 9 per cent of British Sky Broadcasting that News Corp does not already own was all but over.

GTR would build ( with federal assistance ) and operate the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway ( GTPR ) from Winnipeg, Manitoba to Prince Rupert, British Columbia, while the government would build and own the National Transcontinental Railway ( NTR ) from Winnipeg to Moncton, New Brunswick via Quebec City, which the GTR would also operate.

It also alienated sections of the Liberal Party and some members of his own Cabinet, including his eventual successor, Rupert Hamer.

In 1874, Clarke's son, William, built a mansion, which resides on an estate named " Rupertswood ", after his own son, Rupert.

In 1918, Captain Rupert Hughes of the U. S. Army submitted a patent application for a specialized automatic-opening trench knife of his own design, the Hughes Trench Knife.

For example, her own house is the model for Rupert Campbell-Black's: both are very old ( although his is larger ); her house overlooks a valley called the Toadsmore, and his overlooks a valley called the Frogsmore.

In his own right he is the author of 35 books, the most current being Forever England a new biography of Rupert Brooke, Major to Minor: The Rise and Fall of the Songwriter ( 2000 ) and, with Richard Havers, Read's Musical Reciter ( 2004 ), a collection of trivia from the music business.