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...Ticket sales have been strong for the two operas — Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore — and there will also be youth events, two oratorios in performance and Christmas concerts....
...But by 1973, when the brown bear was finally protected under Spanish law, fewer than 60 of them remained, corralled in the highlands of the north....
...Villains (M L Rio, 2017) and The Cloisters (Katy Hays, 2022) that have a similar campus setting and intellectual moodiness....
...Perhaps the defining image of alfresco dining is Édouard Manet’s “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe”....
...You can’t tell them to buy a bottle for L£500,000 [$23]. It’s impossible,” Nakad told me....
...hopes to totally reboot it in the Eternal City, with Sicilian superchef Ciccio Sultano overseeing culinary offerings, a rooftop bar with 360-degree views, and decor that channels ebullient Man from U.N.C.L.E...
...I’m not sure I want a tiger trompe-l’oeil in my cupboard or a knitted cake stand in my room....
...But the themes underpinning the Stefan Cooke label, which is rich in trompe l’oeil effects, textile manipulation, skinny trousers and eye-catching accessories, were established early on by founders Stefan...
...Now the team tackles The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum’s famous tale of Dorothy, a young Kansas girl who has her life turned upside down (a situation with which we can all sympathise)....
...Inside, I find myself in an open-plan, L-shaped, single-storey space, characteristic of the Usonian homes Wright envisaged for Middle America....
...Donna Flynn, vice-president of talent at office furniture group Steelcase, made a point of showing vulnerability to staff, describing days that she had found personally tough during the crisis....
...My favourite neighbourhood is Saint-Germain-des-Prés, because I love L’Hotel and all the antique shops and art galleries there....
...The luxurious Rosa Feola (Donna Fiorilla) suggestively rippled through coloratura. Giulio Mastrototaro (Don Geronio) briefly showcased his burnished voice from the stalls....
...Other new entrants to the Hamptons include Michael Werner Gallery, Pace, Hauser & Wirth and the founders of Di Donna gallery, who last week opened an art and design outlet in Southampton....
...Santa Barbara County£44.40 james@tigervines.com Matthiasson, Matthiasson Vineyard Ribolla Gialla 2017 Napa Valley$45-$54 various US retailers REDS Mountain Tides Petite Sirah 2018 California$19.99 K & L£22.95...
...Augustine Sedgewick explores the lasting impact of an older business in Coffeeland (Allen Lane RRP£25/Penguin Press RRP$30, April), which tells the story of our favourite drug, from volcanic highlands to...
...His career at La Scala began in 1953, designing sets and costumes for Rossini’s L’Italiana in Algeri....
...The role calls on its prima donna to act like a prima donna, which can be awkward....
...Hotel Saint George, 105 South Highland Ave, Marfa, Texas (marfasaintgeorge.com)....
...The chain is the flagship of L Brands, the business he founded as The Limited in 1963....
...A very personal and poetic book which l read on the Isle of Harris, overlooking the Minch towards the Shiants....
...O’Keeffe painted one entitled “Bella Donna with Pink Torch Ginger Bud”....
...It was made by his fiancée and shows the Scottish Highlands where Saunders worked, aged 19, as an instructor at the John Ridgway School of Adventure....
...“I think at the time that it was quite nice appreciation, ‘l’enfant terrible’,” he says. “It showed that I was doing things that were maybe not in the rules, which is good for me....
...Designed in an “L” shape with the front door in the interior corner, it had stone foundations and was made of hardy cedar wood with a wooden shingle roof....
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