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...Stage director Robert Carsen reads Glanert’s haunting love scene between Rahel and Alfonso VIII as a dream of religious utopia....
...According to Aoife Brady, the NGI’s curator of Italian and Spanish art, the painting is a “real prestige piece” that was probably intended to wow visitors at the opulent court of Alfonso d’Este in Ferrara...
...One of the grandest is a 30-metre monument to Alfonso XII (who reigned from 1874 to 1885) on horseback, looking out over the lake. Further south is my favourite: the Fuente del Ángel Caído....
...Two films casting light on the global migrant crisis also fared well....
...This Wozzeck is direct, descriptive and stupendously well crafted. The stage is generally bare, with three concentric revolving circles, sparingly used....
...The windows of its two well-appointed apartments (note the underfloor heating and open fireplaces) offer swoon-inducing views along the coast....
...That the relationships they commemorated were often tainted as well as painted in no way detracts from these images’ powerful charm. To October 1, holburne.org...
...Like Francisco Franco decades after him, Alfonso realised the potential of tourism to boost Spain’s fortunes and image....
...Toniolo said that made Dolce & Gabbana, which derives 95 per cent of beauty revenues from fragrance, well-primed for expansion....
...Drama and the Rubell Museum, which they claim will “revolutionise how audiences interact with visual and performing art” — via new works from six playwrights inspired by the work of artists Kehinde Wiley, Alfonso...
...Opens this summer, rooms from €280, arnesse.com Madrid Built at the behest of King Alfonso XIII in 1912, The Palace used to be the grandest hotel in the Spanish capital, and one of the first in the world...
...The softly spoken Alfonso Camisotti opened his shop in the early 1970s, when buttons were chunky and valves glowed gently....
...Opposite, the Spanish Wing bears the arms of Alfonso XIII....
...But the most amusing gift I ever received was a wedding present when I married Prince Alfonso von Hohenlohe in 1955....
...According to OECD figures, Argentina has a total tax take of 29 per cent of GDP, well above the Latin American average and close to the rich-country mean of 34 per cent....
...“We believe FIO should honour the time-tested and well-settled fact that regulation of the insurance industry is best performed at the state level,” the group said....
...Born in Rome, Meloni spent her first years in a well-heeled neighbourhood, but moved to the blue-collar Garbatella district near her maternal grandparents after her father abandoned the family....
...“For example, if someone is coming with their elderly mother and we know her name and any small details . . . it’s good for people to feel well looked after,” says Navarro....
...This January it gets a new lease of life when it opens as Canfranc Estación, a Royal Hideaway Hotel (named in deference to the fact that the original station was opened by King Alfonso XIII of Spain and...
...Blanchett, 53, is home after a long day spent filming her latest project, Disclaimer, a new thriller series for Apple TV directed by Alfonso Cuarón....
...Downstairs, the spa features a Turkish-style marble hammam, various treatments and a small, well-equipped gym....
...“People usually come across them when they go shooting and then they start wearing them all the time,” says owner Daniel Ballbe who has expanded the Teba into suede as well as summer fabrics, and has just...
...Scandinavian buyers, along with Belgians and Dutch, have taken their place, as well as buyers from eastern Europe....
...Julie Boulianne’s well-sung Dorabella and Huw Montague Rendall’s pleasing Guglielmo make a more conventional couple....
...Alfonso Bonilla, an architect and a leading opponent of the Hines project, slammed build-to-rent standards, calling them “not adequate for long-term living”....
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