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...The South Korean-born designer Rejina Pyo hosted an intimate show at the Mandarin Oriental’s The Aubrey bar, where guests clustered around marble-top tables to snack on Japanese canapés and cocktails as...
...By contrast, Ravel’s L’Enfant et les sortilèges, no ordinary opera, does not get ordinary treatment....
...Her reconstruction not just of John Aubrey’s not so ‘Brief Life’, but of his authentic voice, was a brilliant marriage of scholarship and sympathetic imagination....
...Finley’s mother Jaime was not happy with her outlining of the star cookie and she wiped it off and began again....
...The best, an Yves Saint Laurent 1983 couture gown is directly referenced in a trompe l’oeil cut-out “paper doll” dress by Jeremy Scott for the Italian label Moschino....
...Reprising a role indelibly associated with him, Gerald Finley was magnetic as the chain-smoking Oppenheimer, while the outstanding soprano Julia Bullock put her agile voice through its paces as his wife...
...It reached its climax at the start of December, when the Metropolitan Opera gave the first New York production of L’Amour de loin, her best-known work dating from 2000 — better late than never....
...The hard-working cast did what it could, with Gerald Finley as a robust Tell and John Relyea as a formidable Gesler....
...His move into the affordable housing market follows the recent appointment of Aubrey Adams, former Savills chairman and RBS global restructuring group property chief, as chairman of L&Q Group, one of Britain...
...In its orchestral version Rubáiyát must rival Chausson’s Poème de l’amour et de la mer in its luscious, hothouse atmosphere....
...Former Savills chairman Aubrey Adams this month became chairman of one of Britain’s biggest social landlords, L&Q....
...Last year at the event Karen Finley painted works inspired by “sext messages” and Joe Zane exhibited a taxidermy chihuahua dressed as a princess....
...My paternal grandfather, Aubrey Hastings, trained four Grand National winners and rode and trained Ascetic’s Silver to win the 1906 National....
...Then, come New York fashion week, L’Wren Scott held a show featuring royal blue velvet coats trimmed in fur and Ralph Lauren did a show devoted to tweeds, men’s suiting and bias-cut velvets....
...Fry and Dominique L Debats, for instance, report that the recently widowed survive longer if they have high levels of social engagement and family stability....
...Dorothy L Sayers, Richard Powers, Susanna Clarke. Do you have a writing routine? No, it’s completely chaotic. I’m very undisciplined....
...The year Nielsen arrived in London, Bakst became the most famous Russian artist in the world with his designs for “La Peri” and “L’Après Midi d’un Faun” in Paris....
...So many of the great and good are here: the booming tones of Maurice Bowra; Isaiah Berlin, that sparkling fountain of wit and wisdom; the assertive A.L....
...With the collusion of William Christie and a lively young cast, Montalvo multiplies the stage action with computer-generated trompe l’oeil animation: you can’t tell where the stage ends and magic-mirage...
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