Hints and tips:
...Martin Berg is nearing 50 and looking back on his life’s achievements....
...König Galerie shows contemporary art in St Agnes, a Brutalist building in Kreuzberg that was once a church. I also saw the Calder exhibition at the reopened Neue Nationalgalerie....
...Agnès Letestu, a Paris Opera Ballet étoile since 1997, is Marguerite Gautier on the opening night, while Stéphane Bullion dances the part of Armand Duval, Marguerite’s beloved....
...But his cribbing from Janácek, Richard Strauss and Berg – the ball scene owes a lot to Wozzeck – is so cleverly filleted that only a jaundiced mind could object....
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