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...Until March 3; further information here Performance ‘Carmen’ and ‘Madama Butterfly’, Metropolitan Opera British theatre director Carrie Cracknell’s dazzling modern interpretation of Bizet’s Carmen stars...
...The Cuban’s tonal control was honed by a decade playing with the Havana-based son band Sierra Maestra, and here his minimal decorations had maximum effect....
...They were followed by the Carmen Thyssen Collection (2011), the Pompidou Centre and Russian Museum (both 2015), and the archaeological treasure-house of the Museo de Málaga (2016)....
...It is the first of two, perhaps three, places we go that are the creation of extraordinary women, in this case Carmen Bustamante, whose art is in every room....
...“It’s a decisive moment in the history of our country and the history of the oil industry,” said Mr López Obrador on Saturday in the southern oil town of Ciudad del Carmen. “I’m not exaggerating....
...Concluding every view, brilliantly illuminated, rose the snow-peaks of the Sierra Nevada....
...Carmen Calvo, deputy prime minister, said on Friday: “Democracy is not compatible with a tomb in honour of the memory of Franco.”...
...Guadalix de la Sierra is a place of no particular distinction in the foothills of the mountain range north of Madrid....
...Fifty kilometres north of Madrid, in the granite mountains of the Sierra de Guadarrama, is the tallest stone cross built anywhere in the world....
...And Tanzania, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia are future candidates, bankers say. They may be able to prolong the honeymoon....
...From my table on the terraza I could see Doña Carmen in her little kitchen and hear the sizzle of the fryer....
...But Maria del Carmen Hernández, Edgar’s mother, says none of the family left the village in the days before her son’s illness, and that no one from outside came to visit....
...The first-person narrator – a French traveller in search of the battlefield of Munda, first meets Don José Lizarrabengoa, a Basque from Navarre, by a stream in the Sierra de Cabra: “The gorge suddenly opened...
...Close to our hotel, for example, was El Carmen de San Miguel, where we troughed and sluiced all too copiously....
...Superbly engineered stagecraft (the girls’ scrap) is offset by comical incompetence (Carmen’s complicated flight). And where is this Carmen set?...
...On winter weekends, there is skiing in the Sierra Nevada, just a couple of hours’ drive from Malaga....
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