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...“When Carmen is killed by Don José, of course it is not politically correct, but I would just say it is not correct to kill someone....
...Marianne Crebassa gave Carmen an inimitably Gallic sensuality and Rosa Feola was captivating as Donizetti’s Norina, singing from a car flying in mid-air....
...Carmen Rodríguez-Medel, an investigating magistrate, has opened a probe looking at whether, in authorising the demonstration, the central government’s representative in Madrid knowingly made an unjust decision...
...He insists that Santa Lucía will work out to be 100bn pesos ($5bn) cheaper than the abandoned Norman Foster-designed hub....
...But in midwinter you can be alone: we were the only people in the Arab bathhouses, the gardens of Carmen de los Martires and even the Convento de Santa Isabel la Real....
...Towering flower arrangements and a Carmen-Miranda-style mountain of tropical fruit might have provided distraction from the ugliness, only their colours clashed with the television screen....
...Doss made a keenly sung Alfie, but it was Elena Zilio’s all-Italian Mamma Lucia who threatened to steal the show....
...Carmen Lucia, the president of Brazil's Supreme Court, even had to go so far as to condemn calls for a military intervention — demands that have been heard repeatedly in crisis-ridden Venezuela in recent...
...“A pardon is not and can never be an instrument of impunity,” Supreme Court chief justice Cármen Lúcia said in her decision suspending the decree....
...Rumoured candidates include Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a former president, Rodrigo Maia, the head of congress, or even, Cármen Lúcia, the Supreme Court chief. Each might maintain economic reforms....
...“You can try to gag a judge but you can never silence justice,” said Cármen Lúcia, chief magistrate of the supreme court....
...“You can try to gag a judge but you can never silence justice,” said Cármen Lúcia, the chief magistrate of the supreme court....
...Minister Cármen Lúcia, as she likes to be addressed, made her mark last November at a crucial moment of the investigations....
...Dionysios Sourbis brings an unusually vibrant baritone to Silvio and the outstanding Elena Zilio as Mamma Lucia once again threatens to steal the show....
...In particular, he singled out a new Carmen from Cuban dancer Carlos Acosta, who will be following up his Don Quixote as choreographer in 2013....
...“But Carmen was a hit — you’re talking about a toreador and bullfights — oh, I had them, then!”...
...Then there is the Cortefiel Group, which has just made award-winning Spanish designer, Carmen March, creative director of its upscale line, Pedro del Hierro Madrid....
...It’s notable that this year’s Fès festival, in hosting the great Flamenco artist Paco de Lucía and the Turkish Mevlevi Ensemble, amply represents the Strait of Gibraltar and Bosphorus....
...“Thrips might turn out to be one of the first pollinator groups in geological history,” says Carmen Soriano of the ESRF. …………………………………………………………….....
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...Lucia Lacarra was a fine-drawn, erotically teasing Death, Roberto Bolle a young painter of explosive sexual energy, and this was a reading that grandly updated the role and gave it fresh resonance....
...Superbly engineered stagecraft (the girls’ scrap) is offset by comical incompetence (Carmen’s complicated flight). And where is this Carmen set?...
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