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...June 15 to 24; further information and tickets here ‘Swan Lake’, Opéra Bastille Rudolf Nureyev’s 1984 interpretation of Swan Lake, for which the great set designer Ezio Frigerio created an enclosed space...
...the rage in the ’70s (including the radish pigs, watermelon swans and frankfurter peacocks memorialised on the Instagram feed @70sdinnerparty)....
...Chaumet gold and diamond L’Épi de Blé de Chaumet ring, £10,200. Saskia Diez sterling-silver Long Star earring, €105 for a pair Paul Smith silk shirt, £425, and matching silk tie, £110....
...This year’s programme includes excerpts from Nureyev’s Swan Lake, La Sylphide and Maurice Béjart’s La Luna, as well as newer pieces beyond the company’s traditional repertoire....
...They conceded however that the FTSE 100 insurer should be on a closer lookout for such “black swan” events....
...Rival fund managers with investments in Odey’s funds also reviewed their holdings, with Schroders offloading its remaining stake in the Odey Swan product....
...FTSE 100 group should be on a closer lookout for such “black swan” events....
...Other companies fell by the wayside, including off-site specialist Mid Group and Caledonian Modular, while Swan Housing Association closed its two factories....
...Pech took Monreal to a production of Prokofiev’s L’Angelo di Fuoco (The Fiery Angel) for their first date. Monreal, who’d never been to the Teatro, loved it....
...Becky Frankiewicz, chief commercial officer at Manpower, says “pre-crisis we were talking about bonuses for bankers. We’re now seeing hiring bonuses for truck drivers.”...
...But they later learnt, via a text message, that the billionaire had dumped Swan in late June....
...The latest, L’Heure Exquise, marks the 40th anniversary of her Covent Garden debut. The 70-minute piece was created by Maurice Béjart for the then 62-year-old La Scala legend Carla Fracci in 1998....
...The most famous example is probably E L James’ Fifty Shades of Grey novels, a fantasised, sexualised retelling of the relationship between Edward Cullen and Bella Swan from the Twilight books and films,...
...Simone Rocha went deeper in time, finding inspiration in an old Irish myth about King Lir’s children, who were transformed into swans by a jealous stepmother and lived 900 years....
...And on my wishlist is a sculptural form by Kate Crassweller via L’Editions. I met Kate at university and we both moved to New York....
...From there we head to Soledad Twombly’s L’Archivio di Monserrato, a remarkable mix of historic textiles, clothes and paintings by her husband....
...Letter in response to this article: Finance regulators should focus on bitcoin, not ESG / From Jean Martel, L’Île Bizard, QC, Canada...
...‘The human frame as expressive instrument’ Swan Lake, Mariinsky Ballet, Royal Opera House (August 11 2009) “The Mariinsky’s Swan Lake is a palimpsest....
...“Anything below 1 per cent is really just clinging on now,” says David Hollingworth, associate director at broker L&C Mortgages....
...One of my favourite places to seek peace and perspective is the Musée de l’Orangerie in the Tuileries, just off the Place de la Concorde....
...The compulsive hunter of rare seeds and exotic specimens, keeper of black swans, emu, and — like Marie-Antoinette whom in so many respects she followed — the shepherdess of a flock of merinos, she was not...
...Europe is home to some amazing global brands, such as Ferrari, L’Oréal and LVMH, which might be expected to perform well as high-spending countries come out of recession....
...“[L]ike what happened at the Arab Spring.”...
...Becky O’Connor, head of pensions and savings at Interactive Investor, says renewable energy and environmental stocks and funds have proved popular with clients....
...On Wednesday Intel announced the departure of its chief executive Bob Swan....
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