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...The opera’s showpiece solo scenes mostly come over well enough, led by the scorned fury of empress Ottavia, sung by Kezia Bienek....
...Between them, a few solitary visitors in hats and scarves are on a walking tour of the 44 architectural curiosities hidden in the 600-acre grounds – from Frank Gehry’s pick-up-sticks-esque pavilion to Andy...
...That installation, which made its debut at San Francisco MoMA in 1978 before going on an international tour, consisted of an immense banquet table in the form of an equilateral triangle, set for a party...
...The season emerged after Empress Maria Theresa (1717-1780) banned celebrations on the streets, sparking hundreds of indoor parties in her wake....
...Cathy Marston has made three works for him: A Tale of Two Cities, Jane Eyre and Victoria, 2019’s ballet biography of the Queen and Empress....
...When work is complete, there will be “engine room” tours. Every couple of minutes McKillen stops to dilate on some feature....
...Commissioned in 1811 by Empress Joséphine, the first wife of Napoleon, it is the oldest tiara ever created by Chaumet....
...was on a grand tour around the newly acquired territories of Crimea and New Russia (southern Ukraine)....
...Marianna Pizzolato conveys the shattered emotional world of the spurned empress Ottavia. Gardiner allows singers and ensemble to breathe together through florid ornamentation....
...In 1908, a German nobleman opened the grand Empress Hotel, the site of lavish new year balls....
...A showpiece of the Irish Georgian style, the house is full of treasures and curiosities acquired by earlier generations of her husband’s family on grand tours of Europe or beyond....
...On Friday March 4 1994, I was on a book tour, in Seattle that day, and my publicist phoned to say he had bad news, which obviously had me worried....
...ACE Cultural Tours has a group tour visiting both, and four more properties (July 25-28, from £795pp half-board, aceculturaltours.co.uk). Photographs: Getty; Hulton Archive/Getty Images...
...The Mariinsky was named in honour of Empress Maria, wife of Tsar Alexander II....
...Back in London, Jeremy Goring, the fourth generation of his family to run the hotel, tells me he first went to the Côte Basque on a school rugby tour....
...He describes, for instance, how in 1962 he put together a contemporary Iranian art exhibition tour of the US, which opened in Minneapolis....
...My favourite put-down of a heckler was that attributed to Winston Churchill when he was on one of his US tours, at the height of the debate over Indian self-government....
...An elegant bonheur-du-jour, or small writing desk, purchased in Paris by the Empress Catherine II for her palace at Pavlovsk even has a double royal and imperial provenance: the Soviet government sold it...
...The maker of The Blue Angel, Morocco, Blonde Venus and The Scarlet Empress deserves no less....
...Hillary Clinton on Monday begins her first trip abroad as secretary of state, on an Asian tour intended to put her stamp on US diplomacy and address such issues as the international financial crisis, climate...
...My most depressing works tour, in the 1990s, was of a Midlands engineering group that based its sales strategy on what it found easy to produce....
...Empress Dowager Cixi, the much-maligned she-devil of late imperial China, is the next detour....
...There is even furniture from Beijing’s Forbidden City, gifted by the Dowager Empress or saved from looters....
...Meanwhile, afternoon tea was about to be served in the Empress Hotel, a beautiful château-style building designed by the British architect Francis Rattenbury....
...The area is easy to tour on foot. Work your way around the Hippodrome, the Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque and save an afternoon to see Topkapi Palace....
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