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...Akhmetshina’s “L’amour est un oiseau rebelle” was smooth and full of polished detail, pleasant when it should be enticing, and Carmen must be enticing....
...The invitation to the house’s spring/summer 2024 show last September featured a reproduction of Alison Watt’s Warrender, a trompe l’oeil painting of a twice-folded, then unfolded, piece of A4 printer paper...
...And there’s Chez l’Ami Louis, where I’ll order roast chicken – sounds simple, but it’s really good....
...In 2011 the widow of Swiss billionaire Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza chose a Baroque palace in Málaga to open the Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga of Spanish 19th-century art....
...‘An integrity that no amount of adulation has corrupted’ L’Après-midi d’un Faune/The Prodigal Son, Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, London (October 31 1973) “We may associate Rudolf Nureyev with all the...
...Juan Diego Flórez showed he can still sing Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore as well as anybody and Camilla Nylund impressed as a well-schooled Sieglinde....
...The generous programme lasts nearly 90 minutes and includes operas that are unfamiliar in Kaufmann’s repertoire, such as Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine, Massenet’s Le Cid and Cilea’s L’arlesiana....
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...In the Dream House is short-story writer Carmen Maria Machado’s fragmented and elliptical account of domestic abuse in a lesbian relationship (Serpent’s Tail RRP£14.99, January; already available in the...
...British architects Carl Turner and Baca have both designed floating homes and dRMM even set out plans for a floating village in London’s Docklands (founding architect Alex de Rijke himself lives on a houseboat...
...He describes Carmen’s show-stopping aria of flirtation (“L’amour est un oiseau rebelle”) as an example of a canción de ida y vuelta, a song-type that made the round trip between Spain and its erstwhile colony...
...It is highly practical. hermes.com The grooming product I’m never without is Eau des Baux by L’Occitane....
...Art and photography by Jackie Wullschlager Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer, by Carmen C Bambach, Yale University Press RRP£50/Metropolitan Museum of Art RRP$65 A showcase of visual seduction...
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...In 2012, he resigned from the board of Madrid’s Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in fury at the decision by Baroness Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza to sell Constable’s 1824 masterpiece “The Lock”....
...Two operas new to Covent Garden will be performed: Enescu’s masterpiece Oedipe and Chabrier’s high-spirited romp L’Etoile....
...Major figurative statements from Chagall — the monumental cattle-dealer “Le marchand de bestiaux” — and Léger — “La femme et l’enfant”, a chunky urban madonna — from 1912-22, flank Kandinsky’s breakthrough...
...Across the world, the recoveries cannot easily be characterised as V-shaped or L-shaped....
...In the 1994 American film Pulp Fiction, John Travolta asks Samuel L. Jackson: “You know what the funniest thing about Europe is?” “What?” “It’s the little differences....
...Singer Emile Ambre performs as Carmen, her bright costume delineated with swift economical strokes, her face illumined in lambent white, suggesting stark stage lights....
...His death two weeks ago meant that we were denied his proper return – on Thursday night, when ENB presented L’Arlésienne, Le jeune Homme et la Mort and Carmen – but he was there, nonetheless, in the many...
...Promotional material surrounding the 3D Carmen, including raunchy trailers (Carmen has always lured the virgin opera-goer with sex) and breathless promises (“truly a musical event to remember!”)...
...Written for the same singer as Bizet’s Carmen (but nine years earlier), it is one of those delicate charmers that, a century ago, was core repertoire....
...It is as Carmen that Garanca is said to be unrivalled today. In concert, she made a restrained femme fatale, and Dudamel responded with polish and delicacy....
...The building, which opened in 1875 on the Place de L’Opéra, embodies the “opulence of the French”, as he puts it, but also the arrogance of an emperor....
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