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...Mark Ravenhill’s two-hander Ben and Imo (at the RSC’s Swan Theatre), about Holst’s collaboration with Benjamin Britten as he struggled to complete his 1953 opera Gloriana, underlines her brilliance and also...
...A banquet at Delmonico’s features a vast lake created in the middle of the massive table, complete with four beautiful white swans — which break into fights between courses....
...Letter in response to this article: Pakistan’s power problems were a ‘black swan’ event / From Khurram Dastgir-Khan, Minister for Power, Islamabad, Pakistan...
...Additional contributions by Tee Zhuo and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...“I was doing Swan Lake outdoors in the Circus Maximus,” he says, gesturing to the huge windows at one end of the atelier, which overlook the field in which the ancient Roman stadium stands....
...For a while it seemed as if Rambert was going to stick to a textbook combination of late-20th-century modern and new commissions, but Benoit Swan Pouffer, artistic director since 2018, has taken a sudden...
...Debuts and swan songs are a recipe for cheers and tears and both were served at the Royal Opera House last week at the latest revival of Swan Lake....
...The elegant sci-fi Swan Song might almost be a period piece, so old-school is its vision of the future....
...But they later learnt, via a text message, that the billionaire had dumped Swan in late June....
...After five months of wall-to-wall narrative favourites — Giselle, Nutcracker, Romeo and Swan Lake — the Royal Ballet has finally re-entered the 21st century with an underwhelming triple bill of works old...
...In one short story, “Purple Swans”, Russia is plunged into an existential crisis after all the uranium in its nuclear warheads turns to sugar....
...Benjamin Crump, the Floyd family attorney, said Floyd’s relatives would meet Scott and Booker on Tuesday....
...Director Benjamin Ree doesn’t hold back with the camera on this or numerous other uncomfortable moments in the relationship between a young figurative painter and a drug-addicted thief....
...Israeli opposition talks deadline Opposition parties in Israel have until midnight to form a coalition and force Benjamin Netanyahu from office....
...From here, you can walk to Snape Maltings, an arts complex set in Victorian buildings originally used to malt barley for beer, which has been home to Benjamin Britten’s Aldeburgh Festival since 1967....
...The region of 650m people is rapidly moving online and provides a potentially huge customer base with markets such as Indonesia, Mr Swan added....
...In this quirky collaboration with Lévy’s conductor brother Benjamin, he and the Cannes Orchestra were onstage at the Théâtre de Grasse, and very much part of the action....
...Given its consistent vibrancy, it’s sad to hear that this is Moniker’s swan song as a fair....
...There are times (many times) when Bourne’s writing is unworthy of its score (taken at an exhilarating lick by Benjamin Pope/Brett Morris and the orchestra, led by Gina McCormack’s lustrous violin)....
...Similarly, when the other dancers cover Marlo Benjamin in Post-it notes that she proceeds to shake off, like Dying Swan feathers, the image is utterly striking — yet remains an isolated vignette....
...It’s easy to forget that Benjamin Millepied is still a relatively young dancemaker....
...“We don’t have the potential feedback loop we had before,” says Benjamin Clerget, a volatility-focused fund manager at BTG Pactual....
...Benjamin Britten’s Albert Herring makes ideal fare. First performed at Glyndebourne in 1947, the opera is 70 years old this summer....
...George Balanchine reckoned all ballets should be called Swan Lake to guarantee ticket sales. Names matter....
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