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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...
...You enter at the magic wardrobe of Jean Marcel’s “Armoire Surréaliste”, with its panels giving on to trompe l’oeil blue skies, and follow Dorothea Tanning’s nightmare corridor of locked doors and outlandish...
...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....
...Carmen Calvo, the deputy prime minister taking on Spain’s fascist past, still remembers the first time she saw the monumental complex erected by the late dictator Francisco Franco....
...‘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....
...Charles L. Turner, an industrial film-maker, shot a group of soldiers idling in New York in 1944, and the result is unspeakably moving....
...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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...Carmen Calvo, deputy prime minister, said the Socialists (PSOE) would “try to form a government alone”. She told Cadena SER radio: “We’ve tried this formula already with very good results.”...
...The Valley of the Fallen is officially a memorial to the war dead on both sides and contains the remains of 33,000 people — but the only marked graves are those of Franco and José Antonio Primo de Rivera...
...I was touched by her vivid writing – letters to friends, family and, of course, her partner Diego Rivera. She was passionate and funny....
...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...
...On Friday morning, Carmen Calvo, deputy prime minister, said talk of surrender was absurd. “[The government’s] obligation is to dialogue,” she said....
...She recalls the relationship between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as being “quite wild”, while Leonora Carrington would have dreams that she had left her body....
...“There are reasonable doubts about your doctoral thesis,” said Albert Rivera, leader of the liberal Ciudadanos party, in parliament on Wednesday. “Why are you hiding it?”...
...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...
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...Mr Castaner also visited Albert Rivera, leader of Spanish centrist party Ciudadanos, this week. More trips are likely, aides say....
...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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...Carmen Vásquez Aldana, a domestic worker who became pregnant after being raped at the age of 17, delivered her baby alone in an unlit room in her employer’s house. The baby died....
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