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...In 1954 he took the lead, opposite Dorothy Dandridge, in Otto Preminger’s Carmen Jones, an adaptation of Bizet’s opera with an all-black cast....
...April 25 to October 20; further information and tickets here Performance ‘Carmen’, Royal Opera House In a new production, Aigul Akmetshina and Vasilisa Berzhanskaya share the role of Carmen in director...
...All the big-hitters are here — a new and presumably epic production of Aida, Zeffirelli’s Carmen and Madama Butterfly, a “pyrotechnic” Il Barbiere di Siviglia and gala events with Plácido Domingo and Jonas...
...Carmen, directed by choreographer Benjamin Millepied, may not exactly be an adaptation of, well, Carmen, but it is a grandiose spectacle that feels grounded in movement even when no one’s dancing....
...Bottega Veneta leather Point bag, £5,880 Chanel Rouge Coco ultra hydrating lipstick in 466 Carmen, £33 Givenchy silk dress, €1,790....
...by Guy Chazan and Sam Jones from disarray to solidarity The EU Emmanuel Macron was being kept guessing....
...The World Bank’s new chief economist Carmen Reinhart and academics Christoph Trebesch and Sebastian Horn, both based in Germany, have a fascinating paper out looking at how governments and other public lenders...
...Some, such as Jim Leaviss of Bond Vigilantes, and Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff (see page 114), believe it did....
...The other one he picks is Carmen Jones, which updates Bizet’s Carmen to the second world war and has an all-black cast. His production ran for a season at the Old Vic theatre in London from 1991....
...One of the strongest stories, “Grace Jones”, follows Sidra, a woman from Martinique who works as an impersonator of the singer....
...Still working are Carmen Herrera, 104; Etel Adnan, 94; Jagoda Buić, 89. Richard Saltoun’s 2019 Frieze presentation of Buic’s textiles sold out in a day, including a Tate acquisition....
...Carmen remains a cigar factory worker but Don José is now a soldier fighting the rebels and, as in Carmen Jones, the bullfighter Escamillo becomes a celebrated local prizefighter, El Niño, who lures them...
...Carmen La Cubana, which arrives at London’s Sadler’s Wells next month before travelling to Germany and China, was conceived by Renshaw in the spirit of Carmen Jones, the 1954 Otto Preminger movie with an...
...Edward Crutchley, a protégé of Dior’s Kim Jones and Givenchy’s Clare Waight Keller, offers a loose-fitting silk dress in muted autumnal tones (2, £700, matchesfashion.com)....
...She has never had a UK public gallery solo show; nor have other exceptionally gifted, thoughtful British non-conceptualists aged between 60 and 70: painter Lucy Jones, and sculptor Emily Young....
...Mr Jones’ appointment has come soon after investment in the company by luxury entrepreneur Carmen Busquets, an early investor in Net-a-Porter, and Venrex, the venture capital firm that also backed notonthehighstreet.com...
...At Bank of China (Hong Kong), general counsel Carmen Kan’s role has expanded since she joined in 2010....
...And the best one I’ve received recently was a 1920s platinum and diamond ring given to me by my mother; it once belonged to my grandmother, Carmen....
...“In fact, Carmen Jones provided the nucleus of friend and family shareholders for ATG.”...
...In a lengthy programme note Neuwirth tries to justify her work by citing Carmen Jones, the 1943 Broadway musical (later a film) that transposed Bizet’s Seville opera to the American south....
...The academic case for austerity was dealt a blow last month after academics at the University of Massachusetts uncovered errors in a paper by Harvard academics Kenneth Rogoff and Carmen Reinhart, which supporters...
...The piece fizzles out, and yet its weaknesses were mostly camouflaged by Carmen Jakobi’s simple staging, resourcefully designed by Matthew Deeley and Mark Howland, and choreographed by Gwen Elfyn Jones....
...He had the idea for a Liberace film 13 years ago when he was making Traffic with Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, two other periodic collaborators....
...investigations (FT) More big remuneration figures in private equity — Apollo’s Leon Black took home $104m (WSJ) Too much aluminium, not enough demand (WSJ) Financial repression‘s back to stay, says Carmen...
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average did indeed reach a post-crisis high; it is “flirting” with the landmark of 13,000, which is within 10 per cent of its all-time high....
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